App doesn't start following setup instructions - 'react-scripts' is not recognized

[devalbo]

I am trying to follow the setup instructions on Windows and everything installs as expected. However, when I run npm start, I get the output below:
'

[email protected] start C:\Users\ajb\Projects\myApp
react-scripts start
'react-scripts' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: react-scripts start
npm ERR! Exit status 1
'

I think this is because there is no react-scripts dependency in the package.json file.

[christroutner]

I believe I ran across this issue too. When I ran:

bitbox new hello-test

The scaffolding application errored out. That was with node v8 installed on a Ubuntu 18.04. I was told however, that it worked on Windows. It could have lead to the issue you describe above.

However, it worked when I ran:

bitbox new hello-test -s react

The problem was that the scaffold did not default to React, as described in this documentation

[christroutner]

With regard to the error in this issue, that behavior would be expected if one did not run npm install first. Did you get that same behavior after running the following?

npm install
npm start

[MSFTserver]

could be related to the commands used when i used this it failed there because cp isnt recognised i had to change that to windows equivalent of xcopy

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