Issue starting a vanilla js build with vite

Using WSL terminal and I'm trying to start a project using vite, keep encountering the below error..

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Windows\restaurant-app'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1395:3)
    at Zr (file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/npm-cache/_npx/1415fee72ff6294b/node_modules/create-vite/dist/index.mjs:48:7572)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  errno: -4048,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EPERM',
  path: 'C:\\Windows\\restaurant-app'

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Windows\restaurant-app'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1395:3)
    at Zr (file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/npm-cache/_npx/1415fee72ff6294b/node_modules/create-vite/dist/index.mjs:48:7572)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  errno: -4048,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EPERM',
  path: 'C:\\Windows\\restaurant-app'

process I tried is below:

npm create vite@latest restaurant-app

npm create vite@latest restaurant-app

21 Replies

Jochem•16mo ago

you can't make new projects in the Windows folder, it's protected you'll have to change to a different folder

CDLOP•16mo ago

I didn't even think I was in it tbh, I'm currently in

laing91@PCS-PC:~/code/restaurant-page$

laing91@PCS-PC:~/code/restaurant-page$

on wSL

Jochem•16mo ago

hm, my vite knowledge is quickly getting depleted... try without the restaurant-app bit? it should prompt you

CDLOP•16mo ago

nah you get the option to choose project name, framework and ts/js It wants to run it from

'\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\laing91\code\restaurant-page'

'\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\laing91\code\restaurant-page'

Jochem•16mo ago

and even without restaurant-app it complains about not having write access to c:\windows?

CDLOP•16mo ago

aye google hasn't been very helpful with the answer either, apart from creating a temporary mapping to start it

Jochem•16mo ago

npm cache clean --force?

CDLOP•16mo ago

chatgpt gave me the reason it failed, which is right, then gave me the fix, which gave the same fail hahaha damnit

Jochem•16mo ago

sounds about right

CDLOP•16mo ago

same issue again using your suggestion btw I could just do it all in powershell but if most of my projects going forward will be using tooling, I kinda need to fix this 😄

Jochem•16mo ago

I always hate saying this, but it works on my machine... Are you running powershell, or powershell (admin mode) oh, you're using wsl, wait

CDLOP•16mo ago

I'm running WSL it works fine in powershell

Jochem•16mo ago

hm, I haven't used WSL in a while, so it's broken because that's what WSL does

CDLOP•16mo ago

WSL breaks things? lol

Jochem•16mo ago

mine randomly decides to just not start sometimes, especially after I haven't used it for a few weeks. It works fine most of the time though

CDLOP•16mo ago

how fun lol

Jochem•16mo ago

what does npm -v print?

CDLOP•16mo ago

umm.. I'm not sure what happened here but

Jochem•16mo ago

oh nice, it worked! I've long since given up wanting to know why something suddenly works. As long as it keeps working, that's all good

CDLOP•16mo ago

hahaha yeah, I did a bunch of things but it could've been a terminal restart that did it after re-installing npm, node etc. thanks jochem 🙂

Jochem•16mo ago

always glad to help(?) 😄 good luck with your app!

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