create-react-app: error Couldn't find package "@timer/detect-port" on the "npm" registry

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create-react-app my-project
Creating a new React app in /Users/z013mrq/my-project.

Installing packages. This might take a couple minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...

yarn add v0.23.4
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
error Couldn't find package "@timer/detect-port" on the "npm" registry.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

Aborting installation.
  yarnpkg add --exact react react-dom react-scripts has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting my-project / from /Users/z013mrq
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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 25 (8 by maintainers)

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I am using a private npm registry and came across the same issue. I understand that this is not CRA issue.

My workaround is to bypass my private registry for this package alone.

npm config set @timer:registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

Hope this helps for others who have a similar issue.

prasann on Jun 7, 2017

Fixed in 1.0.8. Please verify. https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/releases/tag/v1.0.8

gaearon on Jun 28, 2017

I’m closing because there’s nothing actionable for us here. The problem is with the npm registry you are using (either a private registry or an unofficial mirror). Please make sure your npm registry supports scoped packages, or use the official npm registry.

gaearon on May 23, 2017

npm logout helped

hassantauqeer on Nov 28, 2018

Many ways you can solve this issue in your local machine.

Problem here is create-reat-app is looking for package "@timer/detect-port" on the “npm” registry but package doesn’t exist.

when you do create-reat-app my-project yarn will go and search for packages from of npm registry (userconfig registry=xxxx)

First thing you should do is check which npm registry it points to npm config list -l There will be multiple registry at global level , user level etc …

; userconfig xxx
registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org/"

; globalconfig xxxx
registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org/"

Now if user level registry point to your private npm registry make sure it contains dependency. or you can change it to npm’s default registry to https://registry.npmjs.org

I ran into this issue while playing with it today. I use private npm registry so change it to default npm one and it resolved this particular issue.

nikunjchapadia on May 20, 2017