create-react-app: No matching version found for @babel/types@^7.22.18

September 14, 2023

I try to run this create-react-app command, according to the AWS amplify tutorial

npx create-react-app react-amplified

Eventually I get this error:

npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for @babel/types@^7.22.18.

Note I am running this as an admin on my personal laptop — I don’t think I use a proxy, I don’t think I have a "company registry".

I checked these questions:

I tried to clean my cache:

npm cache clean --force

And I tried to update my registry:

npm config set registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/

But still I get the error.

Is this a case where the babel version 7.22.18, legitimately doesn’t exist, according to the npmjs registry?

I am running this command at 9/14/2023 10:15AM MST (GMT-6) (aka 2023-09-14 4:15 UTC)…

Indeed I cannot see that npmjs has a 7.22.18 version, when I visit https://www.npmjs.com/package/@babel/types?activeTab=versions …
the only thing I see is the 7.22.17 version:

I also don’t see the 7.22.18 package available on the yarn registry:

It seems like the specific version @babel/types@^7.22.18; note the caret ^ means…

^1.2.3 "Compatible with version" will update you to all future minor/patch versions, without incrementing the major version. ^1.2.3 will use releases from 1.2.3 to <2.0.0.

… so this means create-react-app is searching for babel version @babel/types@^7.22.18 through <8.0.0, right?

Note, just a few minutes before I ran the above command with a failure, I ran the above command successfully. The command created a directory and installed all the necessary packages, but I had a typo in my directory name, so I deleted it and tried again. I restored the deleted file to see that it used @babel/core@7.22.17, which has a dependency on "@babel/types": "^7.22.17", (see screenshot below). Therefore I hope @Cosimo is correct and it’s just a matter of waiting for the registry index to update…