ionic-cli: "ionic start" gets stuck at 100% downloading starter

Description:

When I try generate a new Ionic project, my CLI command gets to “Downloading and extracting <template> starter (100%)” and then just sits there, the spinner endlessly spinning and nothing else happening.

I noticed this issue a few days back, and I’ve tried numerous things to try get around it, including force clearing NPM cache, uninstalling/reinstalling packages and even NodeJS itself, but the same problem persists.

I’ve also tried this in multiple different CLI environments (I use Terminus with Git Bash by default, but I get the same issue directly in CMD and PowerShell).

In each case, I’ve left the command to run for well over 30 minutes, but absolutely nothing changes.

Steps to Reproduce:

Run the command ionic start,

Output:

$ ionic start hello-world sidemenu --verbose
  ionic:lib Terminal info: { ci: false, shell: 'C:\\Program Files\\Git\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe', tty: true, windows: true } +0ms
  ionic:lib CLI global options: { _: [ 'start', 'hello-world', 'sidemenu' ], help: null, h: null, verbose: true, quiet: null, interactive: true, color: true, confirm: null, json: null, project: null, '--': [] } +10ms
  ionic Context: { binPath: 'C:\\Users\\agreeff\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\ionic\\bin\\ionic', libPath: 'C:\\Users\\agreeff\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\ionic', execPath: 'D:\\workspace\\sandbox', version: '5.2.8' } +0ms
  ionic:lib:telemetry Sending telemetry for command: 'ionic start' [ 'hello-world',
  ionic:lib:telemetry   'sidemenu',
  ionic:lib:telemetry   '--verbose',
  ionic:lib:telemetry   '--interactive',
  ionic:lib:telemetry   '--color',
  ionic:lib:telemetry   '--project-id=hello-world' ] +0ms
√ Preparing directory .\hello-world - done!
  ionic:commands:start Tar extraction created for D:\workspace\sandbox\hello-world +0ms
  superagent GET https://d2ql0qc7j8u4b2.cloudfront.net/angular-official-sidemenu.tar.gz +0ms
/ Downloading and extracting sidemenu starter
/ Downloading and extracting sidemenu starter (100.00%)

My ionic info:

Note: this only shows global info because I’m obviously not in a project here…

Ionic:

   Ionic CLI : 5.2.8

Utility:

   cordova-res : 0.6.0
   native-run  : 0.2.7 (update available: 0.2.8)

System:

   NodeJS : v10.15.1
   npm    : 6.11.3
   OS     : Windows 10

Other Information:

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