Template not provided using create-react-app

Question

When I type the create-react-app my-app command in my terminal, it appears to work - downloading all libraries successfully etc. At the end of that process however I get a message that a template was not provided.

Input

user@users-MacBook-Pro-2 Desktop% create-react-app my-app 

Output

Creating a new React app in /Users/user/Desktop/my-app.  Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes. Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts... ..... nothing out of the ordinary here ..... ✨  Done in 27.28s.  A template was not provided. This is likely because you're using an outdated version of create-react-app. Please note that global installs of create-react-app are no longer supported. 

In package.json of my-app:

"dependencies": {   "react": "^16.12.0",   "react-dom": "^16.12.0",   "react-scripts": "3.3.0" <-- up-to-date } 

I checked out the CRA changelog and it looks like support was added for custom templates - however it doesn't look like the command create-react-app my-app would have changed.

Any idea what is going on here?

Answer 1

If you've previously installed create-react-app globally via npm install -g create-react-app, we recommend you uninstall the package using npm uninstall -g create-react-app to ensure that npx always uses the latest version.

Docs

Use either one of the below commands:

• npx create-react-app my-app
• npm init react-app my-app
• yarn create react-app my-app

if npm uninstall -g create-react-app stated above does not work. Type which create-react-app to know where it is installed. Mine was installed in /usr/bin folder. Then do sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/create-react-app. (Credit to @v42 comment below)

Answer 2

1)

npm uninstall -g create-react-app 

or

yarn global remove create-react-app 

2)

There seems to be a bug where create-react-app isn't properly uninstalled and using one of the new commands lead to:

A template was not provided. This is likely because you're using an outdated version of create-react-app.

After uninstalling it with npm uninstall -g create-react-app, check whether you still have it "installed" with which create-react-app (Windows: where create-react-app) on your command line. If it returns something (e.g. /usr/local/bin/create-react-app), then do a rm -rf /usr/local/bin/create-react-app to delete manually.

3)

Then one of these ways:

npx create-react-app my-app npm init react-app my-app yarn create react-app my-app