node.js - create-react-app, installation error ("command not found")

Question

I have installed create-react-app exactly as instructed on the facebook instruction page (https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/22/create-apps-with-no-configuration.html):

First, install the global package:

npm install -g create-react-app

I did this. It appeared to work fine - the file was installed to

users/*name*/.node_modules_global/lib/node_modules/create-react-app

I'm not really sure why global install takes it to this path, but there you have it.

Next instruction:

Now you can use it to create a new app:

create-react-app hello-world

Couldn't be simpler, right? But Terminal spits out this at me:

-bash: create-react-app: command not found

It's probably something very simple I'm missing but I don't really know where to look. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks in advance.

Note: I'm using Node v6.3.1, and npm v3.10.3

Answer 1

You are able to apply the following solution:

$ npm config set prefix /usr/local
$ sudo npm install -g create-react-app
$ create-react-app my-app