node - Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.1..2

I get this error doing npm install

$ npm install
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.1.2

Not sure how to get around it. It says warning but then when I do npm start I get:

$ npm start
> react-speed-book@1.0.0 start /home/durrantm/Dropbox/92_2017/work/code/javascri
pt/react/react_speed_book/react-speed-book
> NODE_ENV=development webpack-dev-server --inline
events.js:141 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^

1 Answer

One (workaround) is to delete the node_modules/ directory and then repeat

npm install
npm start