npm WARN install Refusing to install hapi as a dependency of itself

Question

I tried to do the following (per instructions from official site):

• mkdir hapi && cd hapi
• npm init
• npm

Answer 1

This was my initial code

{
  "name": "react",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^15.6.1"
  }
}

which threw error

npm WARN package.json react@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN package.json react@1.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json react@1.0.0 No README data
npm WARN install Refusing to install react as a dependency of itself

then i renamed the name from react to react_app and my code looks like

{
  "name": "react_app",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^15.6.1"
  }
}

then it worked