I am currently experiencing an issue where the following commands (and potentially more) hang indefinitely when trying to initialize a project:

• npx create-react-app
• npx create-expo-app
• npx create-next-app

Here is an example:

C:UsersjamesDocuments>npx create-expo-app@latest my-app

And then it plays the spinning progress wheel animation (|/-|) ~2 times, and is stuck without any progress indefinitely. I have left it alone for hours and nothing happened. Ctrl + C works at terminating the batch job.

Here is some of what I have tried to fix the issue:

1. Restart my computer (several times)
2. Uninstall and reinstall Node.js multiple times (including once with fnm Fast Node Manager)
3. Install different version of Node.js (including v18.20.4 LTS, v20.15.1 LTS, and v22.5.0
4. Tried the commands from Windows CMD (as well as running it as admin), Windows Powershell, and from VS Code
5. Tried to set registry using npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ --global (still the same issue)
6. Tried to clear cache npm cache clear --force (still the same issue)
7. Install create-expo-app globally and then use it (still the same issue)
8. I even tried installing it with Yarn… unfortunately, that came with a whole page of repeated warnings like these:

warning expo > @expo/cli > [email protected]: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported

warning expo > babel-preset-expo > @react-native/babel-preset > @babel/[email protected]: This proposal has been merged to the ECMAScript standard and thus this plugin is no longer maintained. Please use @babel/plugin-transform-numeric-separator instead.

warning expo > @expo/cli > @expo/rudder-sdk-node > @expo/bunyan > mv > [email protected]: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported

warning expo > @expo/cli > @expo/rudder-sdk-node > @expo/bunyan > mv > rimraf > glob > [email protected]: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.

warning "expo > babel-preset-expo > @react-native/babel-preset > @react-native/babel-plugin-codegen > @react-native/codegen > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "@babel/preset-env@^7.1.6".

And then the yarn command gets stuck at an empty progress bar:

[---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0/719

Please help ????

Current system information:

Windows 11

> node -v
v22.5.0

>npm -v
10.8.2

npx create-expo-app@latest my-app hangs and gets stuck without any progress