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Can't create WebStorm React project


You need to install create-react-app npm module, before you use this feature.

npm install -g create-react-app

You can read more about this feature on the official release blog of WebStorm.

Excerpt from the documentation :

Make sure that you have create-react-app installed globally on your computer, for that run npm install -g create-react-app. Then to start your new project, double click on the start task in the npm tasks tool window to run it. That’s it!


I had ie installed create-react-app globally using yarn and webstorm failed to find it. Then I used npm, not to mention globally and its working like a charm.


I created webStrom react app following this steps.

  1. Download node.js
  2. Open command line console and type "npm install -g create-react-app"
  3. Create react app project from web-storm.
  4. Make sure you provided the correct file path of create-react-app , by default it is installed in ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\create-react-app

use npm start: to start development server