A while back I upgraded npm to version 5 using
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npm install -g npm@latest
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or
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npm install -g npm@5
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not really realising that SPFx doesn’t support version 5 of npm (yet). I had to downgrade npm.
running npm install -g npm@3 seemed to be to obvious but that didn’t work:
I tried uninstalling node.js and I tried removing the npm.cmd command mentioned, but all didn’t work.
then I came across the folder C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming with a folder npm and npm-cache
I removed these two folders and then reinstalled node.js. and now npm -v returns the correct version:
