React npm start not working : ‘No version of chokidar available’

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I had the same issue. What worked for me is forcing updates on local npm packages:

npm update --force

Before

$ npm list chokidar
pwa-react-showcase@0.1.0
└─┬ react-scripts@4.0.3
  └─┬ webpack-dev-server@3.11.1
    └── chokidar@2.1.8

After

$ npm list chokidar
pwa-react-showcase@0.1.0
└─┬ react-scripts@4.0.3
  ├─┬ webpack-dev-server@3.11.1
  │ └── chokidar@2.1.8
  └─┬ webpack@4.44.2
    └─┬ watchpack@1.7.5
      ├── chokidar@3.5.1
      └─┬ watchpack-chokidar2@2.0.1
        └── chokidar@2.1.8

Update

We found that NPM 7 was the issue. Downgrading to NPM 6.14.12 works without any changes.

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