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How to fix VS Code unable to create a strapi app?

I'm Having an issue that ruins my entire development plans, And I don't think I'm even the problem!
There is an headless CMS program (open source) called Strapi, If you know the program then good, If not, Your more than welcome to try and tell me if you can help me with this problem.
I'm having trouble creating a Strapi app in VSCode.
The error that I'm receiving is:
You are running Node.js 18.4.0
Strapi requires Node.js >=14.19.1 <=16.x.x
Please make sure to use the right version of Node.
But, The fault isn't on me, I have 16.17.0 version of node installed, and without a trace of the 18.4 version specified on the error code.
I tried uninstalling node, Changing the dependencies in the launch.json file, Nothing worked!

So I Found the solution, the problem was with the version, the recommended 16.17.0 version of node not working with strapi, the 16.15.0 works actually.

React - Browser doesn't detect changes and console says '[HMR] Waiting for update signal from WDS...'

I am pretty new to React, sorry if I am asking something stupid. Any help would be highly appreciated :)
ENVIRONMENT
Ubuntu 20.04 in Windows 10 (WSL2)
Node version - v14.1.0
Npm version - v6.14.7
Code editor - VS Code v1.14.0
STEPS I DID
npx create-react-app <app-name>
cd <app-name>
npm start
https://localhost:3000 opens up in browser with default React landing page. Console says '[HMR] Waiting for update signal from WDS...
'
Delete all files in src directory and create empty index.js in src directory.
Output expected: Blank screen
Output: Default landing page of React even if I reload the page.
Struggles I made before asking this question :(
Looked in issues of create-react-app.
Tried troubleshooting create-react-app as mentioned in official docs.
Looked in stackoverflow for similar questions. Found some but none worked, maybe because my dev environment was different from them (WSL2 in Windows 10).

That sounds like a caching issue to me. My guess would be to clear your google chrome cache and try again. If that doesn't work, check your package.json file and make sure that under "scripts": "start" it says "react-scripts start".

Yayy! The issue is resolved.
It was my mistake :(.
All these days, I was trying to access the Windows filesystem from WSL2 and it seemed to be very slow. So I decided to work in the Linux filesystem itself. And everything works fine now. Thanks for helping :)

Error: Text data outside of root node - when installing cordova plugin

I sometimes get an error when trying to install any cordova plugin ionic (usually after around 6pm GMT+0).
These are with plugins from both npm and GitHub, and the error I get is:
Error: Text data outside of root node.
Line: 155
Column: 1
Char: "
The install command will be something along the lines of
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-network-information#1.3.1
It really does not matter what plugin it is, because as mentioned it happens for a number of them, they all get the same error. It will work perfectly ok in the morning, and then suddenly it shuts down.
I have tried on multiple computers, on multiple separate internet connections (from the UK), and I even have a script that reruns the commands if they fail, so it will attempt to install around 20 plugins continuously until they get installed for however long I run my script. I ran it for an hour constantly, and not a single one was installed.
I also checked the status of npm and GitHub if they were perhaps down, but they seemed to be up and running as usual...
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

* Based on my comment which helped the asker, and which I was asked to publish as an answer:*
I don't know ionic at all, but I do have some experience with Cordova and never had any issues installing plugins, even on a corporate network.
Try to install the plugin without ionic.
cordova plugin add my.plugin.name

This error can be caused by an invalid AndroidManifest.xml file. After installing a plugin using ionic corvoda, my AndroidManifest.xml got a syntax error and I had this issue when building the APK.
After fixing the syntax error, the build finished successfully.

Running selenium with Javascript on Node.js

I am a noob to Javascript so apologies if my question is very trivial.
I am trying to run a selenium test that was wrote in Javascript. As I usually do, I just want to start with something simple and work from there. In my script I am just trying to load Google using chromedriver.
var webdriver = require("selenium-webdriver");
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).build();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
On the CLI I navigate to the directory where the Test.js file is saved in and I run the command node Test.js. I always get this error in response;
C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\_base.js:104
vm.runInContext(opt_srcText, closure, src);
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token )
at goog.loadModuleFromSource_ (C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\l
at Object.goog.loadModule (C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\g
at C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\promise.js:1:6
at Object.Context.closure.goog.retrieveAndExecModule_ (C:\Selenium\node_modu
at <anonymous>:1:6
at Context.closure.closure.vm.createContext.CLOSURE_IMPORT_SCRIPT (C:\Seleni
at Object.goog.importScript_ (C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\li
at Object.goog.importModule_ (C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\li
at Object.goog.writeScripts_ (C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\li
at Object.goog.require (C:\Selenium\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\goog
I originally ran this code on my Windows machine and when I was getting that error I put it down to Windows and Node.js no agreeing and tried it on my Mac. Still no luck as I was getting the exact same response.
On both machines I have node and npm installed. Previous to executing the tests I ran the command npm install selenium-webdriver and I also added chromedriver to my PATH.
I have no idea what I am doing wrong so if anyone can point me in the right direction, it'd be very much appreciated.

Turns out the version of node I was using was too old.
Thanks to #Louis for your help in reaching this solution.
What I did was uninstall node and re-installed it with the latest version. I would imagine upgrading would work too.

Cannot run Meteor js 1.1 on windows 8.1

I have tried to install meteor js 1.1 on windows 8.1 with the official installer:
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Preview-of-Meteor-on-Windows
But even after restarting my computer, when I type the command meteor in the command prompt I get the error command not found.
Even after a search on my computer to find the installation folder of meteor, I am unable to find the answer. However, in the add/remove program utility, I can see meteor.exe.
As a note, I already successfully installed meteor before, and it used to run smoothly. In the meantime, I have removed and re-installed node, and it seems that since this moment the command meteor does not work anymore. Hence my attempt to re-install it.
Does anyone have any idea about how to troubleshoot my issue ?

I just solved my issue by using the windows command prompt instead of the git bash
It appears that only windows command prompt is supported so far.

You can try to manually add Meteor to your Path.
Go to "Environment variables" (you can find it by doing a simple search in your welcome screen) and add the following entry:
C:\\Users\\**your_user_name**\\AppData\\Local\\.meteor
Do not forget to separate this entry from other entries by a semicolon ;.