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

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

Solution –

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

npm cache clean --force 

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

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

HAVE A GREAT TIME AHEAD !! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂