title: React: create-react-app fails with error "Cannot find module 'lodash'"
body: <p>I'm learning React for the first time, and I'm having a great deal of trouble even getting started with a demo app. When I run <code>npx create-react-app</code> I get the following error:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7uL0i.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7uL0i.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>This is on Windows 10, npm/npx version 6.4.1. I tried <code>npm install</code> and installing lodash using <code>npm i -g lodash</code>, which tells me lodash 4.17.11 is installed. But the <code>create-react-app</code> command is still generating the exact same error message.</p>
  
  <p>This seems very bizarre. I've looked around online and cannot find any other references to this error as it relates to the <code>create-react-app</code> command, and the solutions on other answers (<code>npm install</code>/<code>npm i -s lodash</code>) are not working (-s requires that an app folder be created in advance of using <code>create-react-app</code>, but <code>create-react-app</code> requires that the app folder be completely empty). </p>
  
  <p>How do I approach resolving this problem so that I can get started with building my first react app and learning the framework?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update - package.json</strong></p>
  
  <p>The package.json is being deleted by the command, but if I open it in notepad++, the last version before the installer crashes seems to contain contain the following minimal information.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "name": "my-app",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "private": true,
    "dependencies": {
      "react": "^16.5.2",
      "react-dom": "^16.5.2",
      "react-scripts": "2.0.3"
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The only file left over after the installation seems to be a package-lock.json, which is very lengthy 0.6mb. I can post it somewhere if needed.</p>