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JavaScript Introducing the Practice

Devontay Cross
Devontay Cross
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Posted by Devontay Cross
Devontay Cross
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Every time I run 'npm start' in the terminal, I get an error and the page won't load. How can I fix this?

Here is the error that I keep getting and I have the latest version of VSCode, plus I've installed all of the dependancies. ... Starting the development server...

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:69:19) at Object.createHash (node:crypto:138:10) at module.exports (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:90:53) at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:401:16) at handleParseError (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:449:10) at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:481:5 at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:342:12 at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:373:3 at iterateNormalLoaders (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:214:10) at iterateNormalLoaders (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:221:10) at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:236:3 at runSyncOrAsync (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:130:11) at iterateNormalLoaders (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:232:2) at Array.<anonymous> (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:205:4) at Storage.finished (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/enhanced-resolve/lib/CachedInputFileSystem.js:55:16) at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/enhanced-resolve/lib/CachedInputFileSystem.js:91:9 /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/react-scripts/scripts/start.js:19 throw err; ^

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:69:19) at Object.createHash (node:crypto:138:10) at module.exports (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:90:53) at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:401:16) at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:433:10 at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:308:13 at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:367:11 at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:233:18 at context.callback (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:111:13) at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js:51:103 { opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ], library: 'digital envelope routines', reason: 'unsupported', code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED' } ...

2 Answers

Travis Alstrand
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Hey there Devontay Cross ! :wave:

I'm unable to replicate this issue which makes me thinks it has something to do with a node version issue possibly.

First, please ensure you've changed directories in your terminal to the correct folder

practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state

then run the commands

npm i
npm start

If you still encounter the same issue, I'm curious as to what version of Node you're using. If you type 

node -v

in your terminal, what does it read?

I saw something online that it may be related to a Node.js and the OpenSSL library used by Webpack issue. We could try the following commands as a potential work-around, I'm not sure if this would work or not but may be worth a shot...

npm i webpack@latest
rm -rf node_modules
npm i
npm start

Things still ran on my end after trying these, but I'm not having the initial issue that you are so I can't be certain.

If you need to undo those last commands and don't want to delete the project files / redownload them you can run 

npm uninstall webpack
rm -rf node_modules
npm i

to get back where you were before doing so.

Devontay Cross
Devontay Cross
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Devontay Cross
Devontay Cross
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Hey Travis, thanks for answering me but its still not working for some reason, here is the error i get whenever I run 'npm start':

The Terminal
Starting the development server...

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:69:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:138:10)
    at module.exports (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:135:53)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:417:16)
    at handleParseError (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:471:10)
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:503:5
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:358:12
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:373:3
    at iterateNormalLoaders (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:214:10)
    at iterateNormalLoaders (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:221:10)
/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/react-scripts/scripts/start.js:19
  throw err;
  ^

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:69:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:138:10)
    at module.exports (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/util/createHash.js:135:53)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:417:16)
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:452:10
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:323:13
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:367:11
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:233:18
    at context.callback (/Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/loader-runner/lib/LoaderRunner.js:111:13)
    at /Users/devontaycross/Documents/Documents - Devontay’s MacBook Air/Team Tree House/practice-state-in-react/1-introducing-the-practice/BEGIN/practice-state/node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js:59:103 {
  opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'
}```
Devontay Cross
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Finally found the solution to the problem, I needed to update node and run a auditfix --force to get everything working properly. Thanks for the help!

Travis Alstrand
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I'm sorry I didn't see your reply in time but I'm so glad you got that figured out!! Nice job Devontay Cross !!! :thumbsup:

I'll remember this in case anyone else comes across this issue. Very well done!!