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Fix `xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance`
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Tried to create react app

npx create-react-app app

Unfortunately, got an xcodebuild error

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(404): https://fsevents-binaries.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/v1.0.17/fse-v1.0.17-node-v57-darwin-x64.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for fsevents@1.0.17 and node@8.6.0 (node-v57 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

To fix this, make sure already install xcode command tools

xcode-select --install

And run this

sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Open your Xcode, then go to Xcode > Preferences > Locations. Then, make Command Line Tools to installed one, for me it was Xcode 11.3 (11C29).

Check if it is still error or not by typing

xcodebuild -version
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