Can't use npx create-react-app "no longer support global installation of Create React App"

Question

I can't create a new application using the create-react-app. The command I am using is npx create-react-app appname --template typescript.

The error I get is:

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

I removed the global package with npm uninstall -g create-react-app. I then checked the packaged is not installed globally by

But create-react-app keeps saying I have globally installed "create-react-app 4.0.3".

After all I did clean cache with npm cache clean --force and reboot computer but with the same result.

I am runnig on windows 10, npm 7.18.1 and node 16.4.0

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance

What version of node do you have running? Could you please run `nvm list`? All the versions install should displayed and the one in use should be annotated. — sjgallen, Dec 20 '21 at 06:43
Following the first answer to this question might help you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61362017/removing-old-versions-of-create-react-app — sjgallen, Dec 20 '21 at 06:53
I have added the node version (16.4.0) and I tried to follow the thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61362017/removing-old-versions-of-create-react-app but it did not work — borja gómez, Dec 20 '21 at 07:24
[Here](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11816) is a related issue — liuliang, Dec 30 '21 at 08:39

score 46 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '21 at 09:07

46

This caught me too. You need to run

npx clear-npx-cache

answered Dec 21 '21 at 09:07

James L

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Would of been nice if the CRA team added this bit for those unfamiliar with this command. Thanks! – Jeremy Trpka Apr 22 '22 at 14:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '22 at 13:50

In my instance, I had an older version of create-react-app installed globally with yarn, and simply removing it fixed the issue.

yarn global remove create-react-app

Or, for NPM

npm uninstall -g create-react-app

I was then able to run npx create-react-app my-app without issue.

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