Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

bash: create-react-app: command not found

See original GitHub issue

Can you reproduce the problem with latest npm?

I have had alot of problems getting npm installed overall and spent around 6 hours getting to the point where I think it is installed now. I run npm -v and get a number, likewise for node.

All packages were working and I had to update to use your package. I could not, so deleted with all packages and tried to reinstall new version. After regular way failed I was able to get it installed, node and Npm, with homebrew after I made a few permissions changes (with difficulty).

Description

I’ve tried several different ways of getting this to work but I always get the error above. This is what I got when I installed the package- `sudo npm install -g create-react-app (I also tried non-sudo)

/Users/name/.npm-packages/bin/create-react-app -> /Users/name/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/create-react-app/index.js /Users/name/.npm-packages/lib`

I looked in the the node_modules and the package is there. I’ve added this-

export PATH="./node_modules/.bin:$PATH" and also I tried it with the full path. It did not work.

I am not great with bash_profile, permissions, etc. so I can’t figure out what I need to do. If this is a node problem I apologize but I still need help regardless.

Run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

npm ls react-scripts - npm ERR! code 1 -bash: /Users/name/Desktop/code_work/react_lynda/bulletin_board: is a directory
node -v: - 7.2.0
npm -v: -3.10.9

Then, specify:

Operating system: IOS
Browser and version: Chrome

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:16 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

7reactions

chrisdel101commented, Dec 13, 2016

The problem was not with CRA, but with node/npm.

Installing Node from scratch, non-homebrew, I put these in my bash_profile. And it worked.

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/my_name/.npm-packages/bin/

1reaction

gaearoncommented, Dec 6, 2016

Hi! The log you posted says it got installed to /Users/name/.npm-packages/bin/. Could you add that directory to PATH? I’m not sure where ./node_modules/.bin is coming from and I don’t think you need it there.

Top Results From Across the Web

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

Step # 1:- Make sure, Node js and React js is installed globally. You can check Nodejs by node --version . If not...

create-react-app: command not found (React) error [Solved]

Use `npx` to solve the error create-react-app: command not found, e.g. `npx create-react-app my-app` or install the package globally by running `npm install ......

npx create-react-app is not working · Issue #10132 - GitHub

First, you'll need to uninstall "create-react-app" using the "npm uninstall -g create-react-app" command. Run "npx create-react-app my-app" each ...

How to Solve the 'create-react-app command not found' Error

The 'create-react-app command not found' error occurs because we're trying to run it locally when it's not installed.

npm WARN exec - package was not found: create-react-app

Then you might be wondering what the problem is. It means that the package create-react-app is not installed, or at least not available...