How to solve npm error “npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE”

Question

I\'m trying to learn react, so I have this sample code for the full-stack react voting app, and I am trying to get it to work but after running npm install followed by npm s

Answer 1

In my case, I had checked out a different branch with a new library on it. I fixed my issue by only running npm install without doing anything else. I was confused why I was getting ELIFECYCLE error when the port was not being used, but it must have been because I did not have the library installed. So, you might not have to delete node_modules to fix the issue.