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create-react-app taking forever to run
See original GitHub issueI recently started out with react and whenever I run npx create-react-app my-app, a my-app directory is created with just a package.json file, nothing else, and the command stops on the terminal as:
npx: installed 98 in 135.321s
Creating a new React app in C:\Users\me\Desktop\Projects\react_project\my-app.
Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts with cra-template...
It just gets stuck here and nothing happens then.
I am on a Windows 10 machine.
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Can confirm same is happening to me on a windows 10 machine
Remove global
create-react-apppackage, if you have it installed globally.npm uninstall -g create-react-appInstall/update react and react-dom globally
npm i -g react react-domThen try setting up the react app:
npm init react-app my-appI tried this method and it took 10~15 minutes