Facing issue while creating solana-dapp

[ap211unitech]

Description

Hey there! I want to initialize a solana-dapp with Next.js and Anchor but it's throwing me CreateAppError again and again. For now, I simply cloned this repo to begin with, but this issue should be addresed as soon as possible.

This issue is critical, as it's a fundamental step in setting up any Solana dApp.

[beeman]

Thanks for creating the issue, just confirmed that I got the same issue locally:

It does seem to work well when creating a pnpm project.

[ap211unitech]

However, I got the reason why it's throwing this error. Once we install the dependencies, it just works fine.

For e.g. -

1. Once you get CreateAppError, navigate into project with cd <project name>
2. Do pnpm i
3. and error is gone.

@beeman However, as you said, this works with pnpm but ideally it should be fixed for npx as well. Thank you

[beeman]

However, I got the reason why it's throwing this error. Once we install the dependencies, it just works fine.

Yes, that was the first thing I tested. However, that doesn't get you to the desired state. For example, the script doesn't create a git repo in the new project.

It also doesn't explain why it doesn't work during the script but it does work manually.

@beeman However, as you said, this works with pnpm but ideally it should be fixed for npx as well. Thank you

I fully agree, it should work with all package managers we officially support (currently npm, yarn, and pnpm). Thanks to this issue I found that it also doesn't work well with yarn so I'm going to be fixing both issues.

[ap211unitech]

Thanks 🙂

[beeman]

Should be fixed by solana-developers/template-next-tailwind-counter#2

@ap211unitech if you could verify it that would be great!

[beeman]

Also works with Yarn now!

[ap211unitech]

@ap211unitech if you could verify it that would be great!

@beeman It still doesn't working for me for npm but works fine with yarn.

[beeman]

@ap211unitech if you could verify it that would be great!

@beeman It still doesn't working for me for npm but works fine with yarn.

Ok, could you share the os you're on and you node and npm versions, please?

[ap211unitech]

Ok, could you share the os you're on and you node and npm versions, please?

I am using MacBook M1 Pro.
Node - v20.11.1
NPM - v10.2.4

[ap211unitech]

@beeman By the way, it just worked when I upgraded the Node and NPM version to latest which are v22.13.0 & v11.0.0 respectively.

[mindcarver]

Regardless of - v20.11.1
NPM - v10.2.4， Both v22.13.0 and v11.0.0 still have a CreateAppError, which has not been resolved. Why is it closed

[beeman]

Regardless of - v20.11.1 NPM - v10.2.4， Both v22.13.0 and v11.0.0 still have a CreateAppError, which has not been resolved. Why is it closed

Mainly because I didn't find a way to reproduce the issue and OP confirmed they got it working.

I will take another look though.

[Nelocage]

I had the same problem and my solution was as follows：

cd <project-name>
npm i

The output is probably as follows

then execute the node command chown

Maybe this is not the right solution, but it solved my problem

[beeman]

Regardless of - v20.11.1 NPM - v10.2.4， Both v22.13.0 and v11.0.0 still have a CreateAppError, which has not been resolved. Why is it closed

I just published a new version under the next tag that adds a verbose option, this might help me debug the issue.

You can use this new verbose mode by running npx create-solana-dapp@next --verbose

If you can paste the full output here I'll check if I can see where it breaks.

[beeman]

I had the same problem and my solution was as follows：

cd
npm i
The output is probably as follows then execute the node command chown

Maybe this is not the right solution, but it solved my problem

From looking at the output, this has to do with the permissions on the .npm directory in your home dir. To fix this, follow the suggested command in the output (the 'permanent' fix) and be sure to not run npm install with sudo again :)