Can't create app after fresh install

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hello,

I am new to using Ionic. I have followed the installation guide and when it comes to running the command ionic start myApp tabs, I get the dreadful error Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...2V0TZa5V7QsgtnZhG25kB'. I have tried running again multiple times with no success even after forcing cleaning the cache.

The last few lines of the log file look like:

2846 silly saveTree +-- typescript@3.1.6
2846 silly saveTree `-- zone.js@0.8.29
2847 verbose stack SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...2V0TZa5V7QsgtnZhG25kB'
2847 verbose stack     at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
2847 verbose stack     at parseJson (C:\ProgramFiles\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\json-parse-better-errors\index.js:7:17)
2847 verbose stack     at consumeBody.call.then.buffer (C:\ProgramFiles\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-fetch-npm\src\body.js:96:50)
2847 verbose stack     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
2848 verbose cwd C:\Users\Amine Marref\Workspace\iconic\myApp
2849 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17763
2850 verbose argv "C:\\ProgramFiles\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\ProgramFiles\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "i"
2851 verbose node v10.16.0
2852 verbose npm  v6.9.0
2853 error Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...2V0TZa5V7QsgtnZhG25kB'
2854 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

The complete log file: Log File

Any ideas?

Amine.

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This has been solved now in the weirdest of ways.
Under Windows 10, I used a VPN client to change my IP address, and the command ionic start myApp tabs worked like a charm. Maybe the npm downloads are affected by this.
However, I did not need to change my IP address when doing it from Ubuntu 18, and it still worked.