How to solve the template not provided in Create-react-app

In this tutorial, we are going the learn about how to solve the template not provided error in create-react-app cli.

If you try to create a new react project using the create-react-app global cli you will see the following error in your terminal.

create-react-app my-app

Output:

Creating a new React app in /Users/user/Desktop/my-app.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...
..... nothing out of the ordinary here .....
✨  Done in 27.28s.

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 This is likely because you're using an outdated version of create-react-app.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.

To fix this error follow the below steps:

1. First, uninstall the global version of create-react-app package by using the below command.

npm uninstall -g create-react-app

2. Run the following command to delete the create-react-app directory manually.

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

3. Now, you can use the npx create-react-app command to create a new react project.

Here is an example:

npx create-react-app my-app

my-app is the folder name