installation ends abruptly with notice to update Node

[mbkv]

Describe the bug

I installed node with "snap" for ubuntu. npx create-react-app fails claiming I need to update my node version

You are running Node v15.0.0-nightly202009086f2af08245.
Create React App requires Node >=4 or higher. 
Please update your version of Node.

This is most likely coming from the following check. you might be able to get semver to coerce the string first, and then perform the check

Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

both "npx" and "You are running Node"

Environment

  current version of create-react-app: 3.4.1
  running from $HOME/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/create-react-app
(node:133962) [DEP0139] DeprecationWarning: Calling process.umask() with no arguments is prone to race conditions and is a potential security vulnerability.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.4 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    CPU: (16) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor
  Binaries:
    Node: Not Found
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: Not Found
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 84.0.4147.135
    Firefox: 80.0.1
  npmPackages:
    react: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
    react-dom: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
    react-scripts: 0.9.x => 0.9.5 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

I don't know why node, yarn, npm show as not found. but

$ node --version
v15.0.0-nightly202009086f2af08245
$ npm --version
6.14.8
$ yarn --version
1.22.5

Steps to reproduce

1. install node on an ubuntu machine, using snap
2. npx create-react-app $(mktemp -d)

Expected behavior

for it to not fail

Actual behavior

it is failing

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[RubenLaube-Pohto]

I had similar issues with snap node but was able to get past it by defining node version with npx like this:

npx -p node@12 -- npx create-react-app my-app --template typescript

Still would not allow me to set --use-npm but that I was able do manually after install.

$ npx create-react-app --info
npx: installed 97 in 3.567s

Environment Info:

  current version of create-react-app: 3.4.1
  running from $HOME/.npm/_npx/70670/lib/node_modules/create-react-app

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.4 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: Not Found
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: Not Found
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 86.0.4240.75
    Firefox: 81.0
  npmPackages:
    react: ^16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-dom: ^16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-scripts: ^3.4.3 => 3.4.3 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

$ npx -p node@12 -- npx create-react-app --info
npx: installed 97 in 3.856s

Environment Info:

  current version of create-react-app: 3.4.1
  running from $HOME/.npm/_npx/70486/lib/node_modules/create-react-app

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.4 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.19.0 - ~/.npm/_npx/70410/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.10 - ~/.npm-global/bin/yarn
    npm: Not Found
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 86.0.4240.75
    Firefox: 81.0
  npmPackages:
    react: ^16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-dom: ^16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-scripts: ^3.4.3 => 3.4.3 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

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[mrmckeb]

Hi @mbkv, first i want to apologise that we didn't get to this sooner. I have a fix for this ready to merge - it was made easy by your research, helpfully pointing to the exact point of failure :)

I'm hoping this will be in 4.1, of not, it should be in 4.2.

See #11057.