Create-React-App failed to compile | Import/First Error

Question

I'm currently using Create-React-App for my personal site. I keep getting the following errors every time I run it:

./src/~/react-router-dom/es/index.js
 Line 3:   Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 5:   Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 7:   Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 9:   Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 11:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 13:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 15:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 17:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 19:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 21:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 23:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first
 Line 25:  Import in body of module; reorder to top  import/first

I definitely feel like I'm missing something super small but I'm having trouble figuring it out. I tried Googling the error keyword 'import/first' and it's leading me to think it's an ESLint issue. Please let me know if you see any problem in my import order. I've tried different import orders, but nothing seems to get rid of the error.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { createBrowserHistory } from 'history';
import { Router, Route, Redirect, Switch } from 'react-router-dom';
import './index.css'; 
import App from './App.js';
import Home from './home.js';
import About from './about.js';
import Contact from './contact.js';
import NotFound from './404.js';

import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';

const history = createBrowserHistory();

ReactDOM.render(
    <Router history={history}>
        <App>
            <Switch>
                <Route exact path="/" component= {Home} />
                <Route path="/about" component= {About} />
                <Route path="/contact" component= {Contact} />
                <Route path="/404" component= {NotFound} />
                <Redirect to= "/404" />
            </Switch>
        </App>
    </Router>,
    document.getElementById('root')
);
registerServiceWorker();

Answer 1

This is because you accidentally installed React Router into src folder. So the linter thinks it’s your code and tries to validate it. Don’t install third party dependencies inside src.

Delete src/node_modules and run npm install in the root folder of your app. If some package is missing, run npm install --save <package-name>, also in the root folder.