I tried to create react app with node version 12.1.0 but it warned me that my minimum node version should be at least 14.0. I used nvm to change my node version to 14.0 and created react app.
However, I want to use my app on node version 12.1.0. So I changed to node version v12.1.0 but I got:
"ERROR in Module.createRequire is not a function" error. Also " ERROR in Error: Child compilation failed: Module.createRequire is not a function "
You can try
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_17.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#debinstall
Try completely updating the newest, stable version of both nodejs and npm:
sudo apt -y update && sudo apt -y upgrade
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt -y update && sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y autoremove
Then, change directories into your app directory:
cd myapp/ #Change this to match your app directory
Remove node_modules folder
sudo rm -rf node_modules/
Then reinstall the packages:
npm i
See if your app builds successfully:
npm run build
As we can read in official docs:
Create React App is a comfortable environment for learning React, and is the best way to start building a new single-page application in React.
It sets up your development environment so that you can use the latest JavaScript features, provides a nice developer experience, and optimizes your app for production. You’ll need to have Node >= 14.0.0 and npm >= 5.6 on your machine.
So these are requirements that you must meet and it seems that it cannot be avoided that way .
Use 14+ of node.js version just use nvm -version_name