React JS – Resolving error while using Fluent UI web components – npm ERR! cb() never called!

React JS - error - "npm ERR! cb() never called!" while installing Fluent Web UI components
React JS - error - "npm ERR! cb() never called!" while installing Fluent Web UI components

Hi All,

Greetings for the day !!

Today new issue and resolution ! Short article but useful for REACT / SPFx developers

Background –

  • In my current project I got an opportunity to implement the SPFx component
  • We are implementing SPFx project using REACT
  • So started refreshing my REACT skills
  • I started exploring Fluent UI web components using REACT so started installing Fluent UI web component using npm as

npm install --save @fluentui/web-components

While executing the above error we are getting an below error

Issue –

npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR!
https://npm.community

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2022-03-21T10_06_23_503Z-debug.log

React JS - error - "npm ERR! cb() never called!" while installing Fluent Web UI components
Fig : React JS – error – “npm ERR! cb() never called!” while installing Fluent Web UI components

Solution –

Just we need to clear the cache. Need to execute following commands

npm cache clean --force 

NPM - cleaning the cache
Fig : NPM – cleaning the cache

What is npm cache. why its necessary to clean timely basis, I am coming with next article, please stay tuned, will share soon.

After cleaning the cache, tried to install the components again and those get successfully installed

 npm install --save @fluentui/web-components

React app - installed React Fluent Web UI components
Fig : React app – installed React Fluent Web UI components

Thanks for reading ! share your experience in case related to this error !

HAVE A GREAT TIME AHEAD !! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂

Prasham Sabadra

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  1. April 21, 2022

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