getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN error

question:

I used ionic start myApp blank and I got this error:

$ ionic start myApp blank
Creating Ionic app in folder c:\Users\Karimi\Desktop\myApp based on blank project
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip Error Initializing app:  Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN
at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
at errnoException (dns.js:49:15)
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:94:26)

Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN
at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
at errnoException (dns.js:49:15)
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:94:26)

getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN (CLI v1.6.1)

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 5.1.1
Ionic CLI Version: 1.6.1
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.3.3
OS: Windows 7 SP1
Node Version: v0.12.7

solution:

As you can read on the GitHub issues here:

So this seems like a DNS lookup timed out. I don't think this is a npm issue rather than some issue with your internet connection. Manpage recommends trying again later.

Additionally, you can try updating your npm with

sudo npm install npm -g

or

npm install -g npm

.