Handle Error: craco start in React

Craco I was facing a very unique error in React application, the error was releted to craco start. I was unable to run my application, when I ran the project with npm start, it was throwing error and error was not described. So I did research on this and found the solution. In this article, we will look about the solutions.

What is CRACO?

CRACO stands for Create React App Configuration Overide. The CRACO is another layer added by React on the top of Create React App.
Basically, craco used to customize the configuration of Create React App. By using craco, you can have all the benefits of create-react-app and advantages of customization without using 'eject' by adding a single configuration file. You can customize your eslint, babel, postcss configurations and many more. You need to do is create your app using create-react-app and customize the configuration file. That's it.

What error I was facing?

When I was trying to run npm start, I was facing following error:

Handle Error: craco start in React

Solution 1:

I explored a lot then I found following solution, You need to try step by step:

Step 1:

Delete package-lock.json (not package.json!) and/or yarn.lock in your project folder.

Step 2:

Delete node_modules in your project folder.

Step 3:

Remove "babel-jest" from dependencies and/or devDependencies in the package.json file in your project folder.

Step 4:

Run npm install or yarn, depending on the package manager you use.

The above steps should be enough to fix the problem, but in some cases, If this has not fixed, there are a few other things you can try:

Solution 2: Switch NPM to YARN

Step 5:

If you used npm, install yarn and use yarn and repeat the above steps with yarn.

Now I hope your issue will be fixed, but if it is not fixed then you need to try solution 2.

Solution 3:

If nothing else helps you to fixed the craco start issue, add SKIP_PREFLIGHT_CHECK=true to an .env file in your project directory. That would permanently disable this preflight check in case you want to proceed anyway.

Solution 4:

You can run your app using following command: SKIP_PREFLIGHT_CHECK=true npm start Now, I am very sure that your problem will be solved.

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Conclusion:

In this article, we have looked around what is craco and how we can get rid of the craco start arrors. We have tried 4 solutions to remove this craco start error. I hope this article will help you to proceed with your apps and codes.