npm ERR! code UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY

Question

I am trying all the ways of creating react application. I have tried with maven and now i am trying with crate-react-app build system from Facebook Incubators.

When

Answer 1

After trying out every solution I could find:

• Turning off strict ssl: npm config set strict-ssl=false
• Changing the registry to http instead of https: npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/
• Changing my cafile setting: npm config set cafile /path/to/your/cert.pem
• Stop rejecting unknown CAs: set NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0

The solution that seems to be working the best for me now is to use the NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS environment variable which extends the existing CAs rather than replacing them with the cafile option in your .npmrc file. You can set it by entering this in your terminal: NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=path/to/your/cert.pem

Of course, setting this variable every time can be annoying, so I added it to my bash profile so that it will be set every time I open terminal. If you don’t already have a ~/.bash_profile file, create one. Then at the end of that file add export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=path/to/your/cert.pem. Then, remove the cafile setting in your .npmrc.