React.js getting "Cannot find module loadash.template" error - reactjs

Question

I created a react app using npx create-react-app myapp, and goting the following error while running npm start
Error: Cannot find module 'lodash.template'
Require stack:
- C:\Desktop\react\myapp\node_modules\workbox-build\build\lib\populate-sw-template.js
- C:\Desktop\react\myapp\node_modules\workbox-webpack-plugin\build\generate-sw.js
- C:\Desktop\react\myapp\node_modules\workbox-webpack-plugin\build\index.js
- C:\\Desktop\react\myapp\node_modules\react-scripts\config\webpack.config.js
- C:\Desktop\react\myapp\node_modules\react-scripts\scripts\start.js
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:880:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:725:27)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\vanst\OneDrive\Desktop\react\myapp\node_modules\workbox-build\build\lib\populate-sw-template.js:10:18)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19) {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! myapp#0.1.0 start: `react-scripts start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the myapp#0.1.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-10-28T16_45_32_029Z-debug.log
I was able to fix this by running npm install loadash --save, but the instruction I found online seems to work fine without doing this. I reinstalled node.js, this error popped up again, I wonder what went wrong.

Answer 1

Try clearing cache:
npm cache clear --force