This week, I started a new project using Strapi, which is a platform that I have not used before. Everything was new to me, as I had previously worked on a project using Sanity, which required the latest version of Node 18 to function correctly. As a result, I had the most up-to-date version of Node installed on my system. However, when I attempted to run the npx create-strapi-app@latest --quickstart command, I encountered an error:

Warning: config production; Use --omit=dev

while trying to install the dependency package. I searched various resources, such as stackoverflow, github, but the only advice I found was to install Node version 14 using nvm install 14 and nvm use 14. Unfortunately, I was not able to resolve the issue using this solution on my computer. Ultimately, I found a different solution that worked for me, which was to do the following:

• You need to first create a new Strapi project:

npx create-strapi-app my-project --quickstart

Although the error message may persist, you will need to close and reopen the terminal before proceeding. After doing so, enter the following command:

cd my-project

From there, you can run the npm install command with the --no-optional flag to exclude any optional dependencies:

npm install --no-optional

Thanks to this solution, I was able to install Strapi correctly and create my project, despite using the latest version of Node. The problem has been resolved.