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npx create-react-app is not working

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$ npx create-react-app my-app

You are running create-react-app 4.0.0, which is behind the latest release (4.0.1).

We no longer support global installation of Create React App.

Please remove any global installs with one of the following commands:

npm uninstall -g create-react-app
yarn global remove create-react-app

The latest instructions for creating a new app can be found here: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started/

npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path C:\Users\User\Desktop npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c create-react-app my-app

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2020-11-23T18_27_48_723Z-debug.log

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Created 3 years ago
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imrishavcommented, Nov 26, 2020

I solved this using the following command.

npm uninstall -g create-react-app

then

npm install -g create-react-app

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salimdasoncommented, Nov 28, 2020

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 time you want to create a new React app. Hope you find this helpful

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