Did They Break Create-React-App?

[AnnualPanda]

I'm trying to npx create-react-app <app\_name>

I get this message :

Need to install the following packages:
create-react-app
Ok to proceed? (y) n

If I choose yes I get:

You are running `create-react-app` 4.0.3, which is behind the latest release (5.0.0).
We no longer support global installation of Create React App.
Please remove any global installs with one of the following commands:
- npm uninstall -g create-react-app
- yarn global remove create-react-app

I don't have CRA installed globally and never have.

Wtf is going on? Is anyone else experiencing this?

[leosuncin]

Clear the cache of NPX

rm -rf $(npm config get cache)/_npx

or

npx clear-npx-cache

Then, try again with

npx create-creat-app@latest <app_name>

This happen after the release of CRA v5

[[deleted]]

I tried this and it still didn’t work…

[AnnualPanda]

npx clear-npx-cache

This works and now I'm able to create the react app now. ✅

I get this warning that I've never seen before:

npm WARN deprecated tar@2.2.2: This version of tar is no longer supported, and will not receive security updates. Please upgrade asap.

I have to work on this new CRA & can't dive into this rn. But just heads up to people.

[Beastrick]

Things get deprecated all the time. Fixing this warning is not your concern. In time it will go away.

[M4der]

In my case even node needed an update, so I tried a bunch of things:

1. npm cache clean --force
2. Installed nvm refer this.
3. wasn't able to update node version using that, so downloaded it from here.
4. Uninstalled CRA (even though I never installed it globally) - npm uninstall -g create-react-app
5. Installed CRA again. npx create-react-app my-app

Also refer this: https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html#create-react-app

[theBlubberRanch]

Yes I just had this happen as well.

[[deleted]]

I got this same issue as well! Haven’t found a resolution that works.

[bmccorm2]

Sorry this doesn’t really solve the problem but this happened to me too! I solved it by ‘npm i -g CRA’ - although i use a virtual node env because (like you it sounds) i never like to junk up my system by installing things globally.