'create-react-app' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I am trying to set up react app using create-react-app command on windows pc. I already used it on my mac computer, and it works well. But I encounter a problem. Here my ste

Answer 1

This is a windows variable path problem, i have faced the same problem recently, the following are possible root cause of the problem , installing node via nvm(node version manager) so to solve the issue in this case you after running npm install -g create-react-app got to the location in my case C:\Users\pc\AppData\Roaming\npm in the copy create-react-app to C:\Users\pc\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v12.18.3 and also move the folder in node_module folder called create-react-app to the specific version you are using under nvm , after that you should be able to use create-react-app without and issue. i hope this will help someone