Troubleshooting npx create-strapi-app error - npm

Question

After running npx create-strapi-app#3 cartdb --quickstart I get a list of errors posted below:
Creating a quickstart project.
Creating files.
- Installing dependencies:
Error while installing dependencies:
npm WARN config production Use `--omit=dev` instead.
npm WARN config optional Use `--omit=optional` to exclude optional dependencies, or
npm WARN config `--include=optional` to include them.
npm WARN config
npm WARN config Default value does install optional deps unless otherwise omitted.
npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR!
npm ERR! While resolving: cartdb#0.1.0
npm ERR! Found: knex#0.19.5
npm ERR! node_modules/knex
npm ERR! knex#"<0.20.0" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer knex#"^0.20.0" from strapi-connector-bookshelf#3.1.4
npm ERR! node_modules/strapi-connector-bookshelf
npm ERR! strapi-connector-bookshelf#"3.1.4" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm ERR!
Keep trying!
I've updated npm and node but still encounter this error. I'm still at a lost after reading through the strapi documentation and some other answers on stackoverflow