create-react-app fails to create project

I can’t manage to create a new project using create-react-app. It only creates a package.josn file with this content (but no actual source files)

{ "name": "project", "version": "0.1.0", "private": true, "dependencies": { "react": "^16.12.0", "react-dom": "^16.12.0", "react-scripts": "3.3.0" } }

Steps done:

1. npm uninstall -g create-react-app
2. npx create-react-app project --template typescript

Output:

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 This is likely because you're using an outdated version of create-react-app.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.

OS: Windows 10 NPM: 6.13.4

[heyimalex]

Why is it not working as expected with npx?

npx searches for globally-accessible bins, but also the bin folder of every node_modules at or above your current working directory. You probably have create-react-app installed higher in your directory tree. You can test this by seeing if adding the ignore existing flag makes it work: npx --ignore-existing create-react-app newapp.

[heyimalex]

@bmuenzenmeyer That does actually look a lot nicer!

Closing this as resolved.