function checkThatNpmCanReadCwd()

in packages/create-react-app/createReactApp.js [993:1052]

• 60 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

function checkThatNpmCanReadCwd() {
  const cwd = process.cwd();
  let childOutput = null;
  try {
    // Note: intentionally using spawn over exec since
    // the problem doesn't reproduce otherwise.
    // `npm config list` is the only reliable way I could find
    // to reproduce the wrong path. Just printing process.cwd()
    // in a Node process was not enough.
    childOutput = spawn.sync('npm', ['config', 'list']).output.join('');
  } catch (err) {
    // Something went wrong spawning node.
    // Not great, but it means we can't do this check.
    // We might fail later on, but let's continue.
    return true;
  }
  if (typeof childOutput !== 'string') {
    return true;
  }
  const lines = childOutput.split('\n');
  // `npm config list` output includes the following line:
  // "; cwd = C:\path\to\current\dir" (unquoted)
  // I couldn't find an easier way to get it.
  const prefix = '; cwd = ';
  const line = lines.find(line => line.startsWith(prefix));
  if (typeof line !== 'string') {
    // Fail gracefully. They could remove it.
    return true;
  }
  const npmCWD = line.substring(prefix.length);
  if (npmCWD === cwd) {
    return true;
  }
  console.error(
    chalk.red(
      `Could not start an npm process in the right directory.\n\n` +
        `The current directory is: ${chalk.bold(cwd)}\n` +
        `However, a newly started npm process runs in: ${chalk.bold(
          npmCWD
        )}\n\n` +
        `This is probably caused by a misconfigured system terminal shell.`
    )
  );
  if (process.platform === 'win32') {
    console.error(
      chalk.red(`On Windows, this can usually be fixed by running:\n\n`) +
        `  ${chalk.cyan(
          'reg'
        )} delete "HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" /v AutoRun /f\n` +
        `  ${chalk.cyan(
          'reg'
        )} delete "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Command Processor" /v AutoRun /f\n\n` +
        chalk.red(`Try to run the above two lines in the terminal.\n`) +
        chalk.red(
          `To learn more about this problem, read: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071121-00/?p=24433/`
        )
    );
  }
  return false;
}