updated 1-7-2020

In the upcoming lecture, we will be generating our first React project by using Create React App. Within the last week, a minor version of that library was released: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/releases/tag/v3.3.0 which has removed support for generating from a global install.

The recommended method for generating a project is now:

npx create-react-app myapp

If you get any errors about missing templates or how a global Create React App install is no longer supported even when using this command, you likely need to remove the global package from your system:

npm uninstall -g create-react-app

* Note - some students have mentioned that an extra step was needed for Mac / Linux users to manually delete the folder:

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/create-react-app