Issue starting a vanilla js build with vite

Using WSL terminal and I'm trying to start a project using vite, keep encountering the below error..

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Windows\restaurant-app'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1395:3)
    at Zr (file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/npm-cache/_npx/1415fee72ff6294b/node_modules/create-vite/dist/index.mjs:48:7572)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  errno: -4048,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EPERM',
  path: 'C:\\Windows\\restaurant-app'

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Windows\restaurant-app'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1395:3)
    at Zr (file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/npm-cache/_npx/1415fee72ff6294b/node_modules/create-vite/dist/index.mjs:48:7572)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  errno: -4048,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EPERM',
  path: 'C:\\Windows\\restaurant-app'

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Windows\restaurant-app'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1395:3)
    at Zr (file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/npm-cache/_npx/1415fee72ff6294b/node_modules/create-vite/dist/index.mjs:48:7572)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  errno: -4048,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EPERM',
  path: 'C:\\Windows\\restaurant-app'

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\Windows\restaurant-app'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1395:3)
    at Zr (file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/npm-cache/_npx/1415fee72ff6294b/node_modules/create-vite/dist/index.mjs:48:7572)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  errno: -4048,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EPERM',
  path: 'C:\\Windows\\restaurant-app'

process I tried is below:

npm create vite@latest restaurant-app

npm create vite@latest restaurant-app

npm create vite@latest restaurant-app

npm create vite@latest restaurant-app

Jochem•8/7/23, 8:49 PM

you can't make new projects in the Windows folder, it's protected

Jochem•8/7/23, 8:49 PM

you'll have to change to a different folder

CDLOP•8/7/23, 8:58 PM

I didn't even think I was in it tbh, I'm currently in

laing91@PCS-PC:~/code/restaurant-page$

laing91@PCS-PC:~/code/restaurant-page$

on wSL

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:01 PM

hm, my vite knowledge is quickly getting depleted... try without the restaurant-apprestaurant-app bit? it should prompt you

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:02 PM

nah you get the option to choose project name, framework and ts/js

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:02 PM

It wants to run it from

'\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\laing91\code\restaurant-page'

'\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\laing91\code\restaurant-page'

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:03 PM

and even without restaurant-apprestaurant-app it complains about not having write access to c:\windows?

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:05 PM

aye

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:06 PM

google hasn't been very helpful with the answer either, apart from creating a temporary mapping to start it

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:09 PM

npm cache clean --force

npm cache clean --force

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:12 PM

chatgpt gave me the reason it failed, which is right, then gave me the fix, which gave the same fail hahaha

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:12 PM

damnit

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:12 PM

sounds about right

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:12 PM

same issue again using your suggestion btw

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:13 PM

I could just do it all in powershell but if most of my projects going forward will be using tooling, I kinda need to fix this

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:13 PM

I always hate saying this, but it works on my machine... Are you running powershell, or powershell (admin mode)

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:13 PM

oh, you're using wsl, wait

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:13 PM

I'm running WSL

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:13 PM

it works fine in powershell

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:14 PM

hm, I haven't used WSL in a while, so it's broken because that's what WSL does

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:14 PM

WSL breaks things? lol

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:15 PM

mine randomly decides to just not start sometimes, especially after I haven't used it for a few weeks. It works fine most of the time though

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:17 PM

how fun lol

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:19 PM

what does npm -vnpm -v print?

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:21 PM

umm.. I'm not sure what happened here but

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:22 PM

oh nice, it worked!

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:22 PM

I've long since given up wanting to know why something suddenly works. As long as it keeps working, that's all good

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:23 PM

hahaha yeah, I did a bunch of things but it could've been a terminal restart that did it after re-installing npm, node etc.

CDLOP•8/7/23, 9:23 PM

thanks jochem

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:23 PM

always glad to help(?)

Jochem•8/7/23, 9:24 PM

good luck with your app!

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