Added a name and version to package.json so it will get further in the install process on windows.

Created by: ryanhugh

Yo!

create-react-app is an awesome tool, thanks for making it!

I tried to install it on Windows in Git Shell with the command npm -g i create-react-app, but ran into the following error:

~/Desktop/code$ npm install -g create-react-app
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install C:\users\ryan\Desktop\code\create-react-app
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "create-react-app"
npm ERR! node v6.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10

npm ERR! No name provided in package.json
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\users\ryan\Desktop\code\npm-debug.log
~/Desktop/code$ which npm
/c/Program Files/nodejs/npm

I forked the repo and added a name field in the create-react-app package.json

~/Desktop/code/create-react-app-fjdlkasjfls$ npm install -g git+ssh://[email protected]:ryanhugh/create-react-app.git
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-11812-31970819\git-cache-df4a41b4\4ac9e27b0fed5d716289fe935337006c79d4ba62
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "git+ssh://[email protected]:ryanhugh/create-react-app.git"
npm ERR! node v6.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10

npm ERR! No version provided in package.json
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\users\ryan\Desktop\code\create-react-app-fjdlkasjfls\npm-debug.log
~/Desktop/code/create-react-app-fjdlkasjfls$

Fixed that error by adding a version field to the package.json. Looks like name and version should be present in a package.json (link 1, link 2)

After those changes then got this error.

~/appdata/roaming/npm$ npm install -g git+ssh://[email protected]:ryanhugh/create-react-app.git

> [email protected] postinstall C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\create-react-app
> lerna bootstrap

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Initializing Git repository.
Lerna v2.0.0-beta.38
Independent Versioning Mode
Bootstrapping 5 packages
Preinstalling packages
Installing external dependencies
NpmUtilities.installInDir     ("C:\\Users\\Ryan\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\create-react-app\\packages\\babel-preset-reac...)
Command exited with status 1: npm install
Errored while running BootstrapCommand.execute
Command exited with status 1: npm install
Waiting for 3 child processes to exit. CTRL-C to exit immediately.
NpmUtilities.installInDir     ("C:\\Users\\Ryan\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\create-react-app\\packages\\create-react-app"...)
Command exited with status 1: npm install
NpmUtilities.installInDir     ("C:\\Users\\Ryan\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\create-react-app\\packages\\react-dev-utils",...)
Command exited with status 1: npm install
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "git+ssh://[email protected]:ryanhugh/create-react-app.git"
npm ERR! node v6.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `lerna bootstrap`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'lerna bootstrap'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the create-react-app package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     lerna bootstrap
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs create-react-app
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls create-react-app
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     C:\users\ryan\appdata\roaming\npm\npm-debug.log

Unsure what the best way to solve that is, but I bypassed that error by cd'ing to the directory where npm installs packages globally and running npm install without the global flag.

cd ~/appdata/roaming/npm
npm install create-react-app # Note: no --global

Output:

~/appdata/roaming/npm$ npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:ryanhugh/create-react-app.git

> [email protected] postinstall C:\users\ryan\appdata\roaming\npm\node_modules\create-react-app
> lerna bootstrap

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Initializing Git repository.
Lerna v2.0.0-beta.38
Independent Versioning Mode
Bootstrapping 5 packages
Preinstalling packages
Installing external dependencies
Symlinking packages and binaries
Postinstalling packages
Prepublishing packages
Successfully bootstrapped 5 packages.
C:\users\ryan\appdata\roaming\npm
`-- [email protected]  (git+ssh://[email protected]/ryanhugh/create-react-app.git#82a629f5205b4c111d30bac69d631a4c75e8c35c)

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\babel-cli\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\forever\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\karma\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\users\ryan\appdata\roaming\npm\package.json'
npm WARN npm No description
npm WARN npm No repository field.
npm WARN npm No README data
npm WARN npm No license field.
~/appdata/roaming/npm$