"Node +17 is not compatible with older versions of expo-cli"

Question

I have installed expo-cli and set environment variables. It gives the following error:

The old version of expo-cli does not support Node 17. Please migrate to the versioned Expo CLI (npx expo). Uncaught Error: Error: EPERM: Operation not allowed, creating directory 'C:\Usersa.expo'

Node version: v18.12.1 npm version: 9.1.3

Answer 1

I encountered the same error after installing a package. After some investigation, I noticed that the version system has expo dependency "^1.0.0". So I updated it to "npx expo upgrade" and my app worked fine. Before npx expo upgrade