Throughout my experience, I have never encountered this particular issue with the reliable old
create-react-app
However, on this occasion, I decided to use
npx create-react-app
to initiate a new react app. Below is a screenshot depicting the progress of the setup process, which unfortunately halts at this point.
https://i.sstatic.net/BCXK0.jpg
Additional Information: Node v10.16.3 NPM v6.13.6 Windows 10 64-bit