cb() never called!

[Saurabh-ux-92199]

Creating a new React app in E:\myapp.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts with cra-template...

npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! https://npm.community

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-05-10T11_24_52_824Z-debug.log

Aborting installation.
npm install --save --save-exact --loglevel error react react-dom react-scripts cra-template has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting myapp/ from E:
Done.

[umaryusuf11]

Yes I am getting the same error. Trying to run
npm install --global expo-cli

[ivonnegattringer]

I got the same error.....

[vchewjs]

I got the same error.....

[vchewjs]

$ npm install --global expo-cli
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for @expo/config@3.2.1.
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'expo-cli'
npm ERR! notarget

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-05-11T16_37_58_136Z-debug.log

[vksgautam1]

Getting same error for react native

[visak-se]

Getting same error for ng new and npm install npm@latest -g

[alecStewart1]

Duplicate issues for this error it seems.

Here's the log file I have for this issue (though it tells you effectively nothing)

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'i', '-g', 'pnpm' ]
2 info using npm@6.13.1
3 info using node@v13.2.0
4 verbose npm-session 8d92d997c820c4bd
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readGlobalPackageData
7 timing npm Completed in 715ms
8 error cb() never called!
9 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
10 error <https://npm.community>

[alecStewart1]

Allegedly some people have seen the issue fixed running npm cache clean (or with --force as well). That has not fixed the issue for me.

[martinlockett]

5706 timing npm Completed in 20364ms
5707 error cb() never called!
5708 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
5709 error https://npm.community

npm cache verify fixed it for me

[visak-se]

Getting same error for ng new and npm install npm@latest -g

This fixed it for me:
Uninstalled Node.js
Reboot
Installed latest stable Node.js
Reboot