Why do I get "Module not found" error related to favicon.ico when starting a new Next.js 14 app using create-next-app?

Question

I ran the following command to start a new Next.js app:

npx create-next-app@latest

But npm run dev gives me the following error:

Module not found: Can't resolve 'C:\xxxxx\xxxxx\xxxxx\my-app\src\app\favicon.ico?__next_metadata__'

What is strange is that, actually, 5% of the time I run npm run dev, I don't get this error.

Is this some kind of bug related to Next.js version 14.0.3? I have no such error when using Next.js 13.

I found this issue on GitHub, especially this comment, which sounds like it could solve my problem since I'm on Windows, but I don't find the get-metadata-route.ts file. Perhaps it is renamed in Next.js 14?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, but I resolved it by moving the project to my desktop and it started working and I think that was just a problem with Windows path type "/" "\".