npm ERR! Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

Question

I\'m trying to update the npm (node package manager) using the command: npm install npm@latest -g but I\', getting the following error in the command prompt:

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Answer 1

May be this will help someone in need. I turned to this solution after wasting good 2 hours as my corporate proxy server on work laptop was not getting resolved..!

I removed both proxy and https-proxy from .npmrc file and set only

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

Then, I am able to successfully run npm install -g create-react-app

.npmrc file can be found here at C:\Users\\.npmrc

Cheers! Happy Quarantine Development :p