If you’ve ever used create-react-app as a global installation or through npx, but was previously on version 4.x.x of create-react-app/react-scripts, then you may notice an error when you run the command below, as it tries to use the latest version (5.x.x as of this writing).
npx create-react-app myappYou are running create-react-app 4.x.x, which is behind the latest release (5.0.1).
We no longer support global installation of Create React App.The current solution is simple — run create-react-app and target the latest version.
npx create-react-app@latest myappDifferent versions of npm may help as well, and you can upgrade using the following command. Please note that this may affect other projects on your system.
npm install -g npm@latest
Thank you!!
I was trying everything: npm uninstall -g create-react-app; npm update npx. And nothing worked, until I found your article. But now I have a question: will I have to use npx create-react-app@latest for all future projects since, apparently, npm no longer supports global installation of create-react-app?
You’re welcome! You can try something like npx clear-npx-cache
It seems something is left behind even when uninstalling the global install of create-react-app. Otherwise, aside from a _clean_ install and removing all cache, I’ve still just been using npx create-react-app@latest on some of my older environments anyway.
Thanks a lot, its working now.