create-react-app, installation error (“command not found”)

Question

I have installed create-react-app exactly as instructed on the facebook instruction page (https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/22/create-apps-with-no-configuration.

Answer 1

Answers given above are right but I want to share some things that I also faced and these are basics.

To setup react project

If you want to create a node environment

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

(Sometimes we can also run without sudo; but sudo means install in system level.)

$ sudo apt-get install nodeenv

$ nodeenv env
$ source /bin/activate

If you want to create new react app then

$ npm install create-react-app

If an error occurs create-react-app: command not found then install with -g, it happens because node is installed globally and it is not getting the node in local

$ npm install -g create-react-app

$ create-react-app app_name
$ cd app_name
app_name$ npm start

Answer 2

Try this. It worked or me. I found this in the React documentation. "Npx" is not a typo. It's a package runner tool that comes with npm 5.2+.

npx create-react-app my-app