node.js fails to run create-react-app

[davewthompson]

create-react-app fails to install:

~/dev> create-react-app hello-haiku

Creating a new React app in /boot/home/dev/hello-haiku.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...


> [email protected] postinstall /boot/home/dev/hello-haiku/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js
> node scripts/postinstall || echo "ignore"



Aborting installation.
  npm install --save --save-exact --loglevel error react react-dom react-scripts has failed.

Deleting generated file... node_modules
Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting hello-haiku/ from /boot/home/dev
Done.
~/dev>