Error on `yarn start`

[fhughes90]

First time install for yarn pkg or create react app. I follow the documentation and get this error on yarn start

  opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'

I thought maybe my nodejs was outdated so I ran brew upgrade node and get this version of nodejs

❯ node -v
v20.8.0

Any guidance where to start troubleshooting? Here are some more details about my setup.

Hardware: 2018 MacBook Pro, intel
OS: macOS Sonoma 14.0
Yarn: 1.22.19

Recommendations

• I do see this suggestion on the web

NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider yarn dev

but I'm not sure how to apply this? Is this suppose to be in a .conf file somewhere?

[abz98]

@fhughes90 This is an issue with OpenSSL. As Node upgraded to version 3.0, to mitigate this error, we can change the package.json start build script as follows:
"scripts": {
"start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=local react-scripts --openssl-legacy-provider start",
}
Can i raise a PR ?

[fhughes90]

Oh, ok. Yes, you can raise a PR.