A template was not provided, An outdated Package

While doing some tutorials using react, I ran into an unusual error when creating a new react application using create-react-app command.

So today, I'll show you how to fix this kind of error which you might encounter later on while developing your react application.

Error:

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...
..... nothing out of the ordinary here .....
✨  Done in 19.28s.

A template was not provided. This is likely because you're using an outdated version of create-react-app.
Please note that global installs of create-react-app are no longer supported.

Solution:

1. In our system verified the exact location of our create-react-app command by typing this code.

   which create-react-app

   In case it returned a path, commonly in this location

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

   Now, we know the exact location we can used it later on to remove all the existing file after we uninstall this command.

2. Uninstall Create-react-app in our system.

   npm uninstall -g create-react-app

3. Remove the file path, from step 2.

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

4. Finally, use either one of the below commands:

   npx create-react-app lcp-app
   
   // or
   npm init react-app lcp-app
   
   // or
   yarn create react-app lcp-app

Voila

It should be like this after you run the npx create-react-app lcp-app or any of the command in step 4.

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Voila!!!

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