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Option to overwrite conflicting files while creating new app

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Currently, creation of a new app will fail if the folder has files which will be added by create-react-app. screen shot 2017-07-13 at 1 46 04 am

It would be nice to have an option which allows us to let create-react-app overwrite those conflicting files. Simple initialisations like npm init and git init before CRA in an existing folder can lead to this failure via conflicts.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

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goofballLogiccommented, Jul 23, 2018

Trying to run this in e.g. Cloud 9, I find that Cloud 9 continuously creates a .c9 folder (working area for the IDE) which reappears as soon as I remove it. Only alternative seems to be creating in a subfolder, then moving everything up a level 😕

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gaearoncommented, Jul 13, 2017

I’ll close this but filed https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2780 for better error message. Thanks for explaining!

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