create app using specific react version

[Guillermo-HR]

Hi, everybody,
I'm following a tutorial (https://github.com/Maclinz/expense-tracker_fullstack) that uses node.js and react for the front end. I'm currently using node v22.12.0. When I run the command npx create-react-app frontend from my root I get the following error:

It is because it installs react v19, I searched how to install react v18 previously but I can't figure out how to solve the issue.

I used the flag --legacy-peer-deps but it doesn't resolve the problem

[ChrisUser]

Hi @Guillermo-HR, this seems to be a current open problem as you can see in both #13721 and #13727.
The suggested workaround is to use:

yarn create react-app new-app

instead of the npx command, or you can try this if you need to keep using npm.

As long as this project remains stale this might be the best applicable solution to your issue.
Hope this helps ✋

[Guillermo-HR]

Thanks for the response, I decided that the best option would be to use an older version of react v18 like in the tutorial. For that I followed How to use create-react-app with an older React version? and it solved mi issue

[ChrisUser]

I know I should't spam it here but I made a React template (which I'm still updating whenever I can) with some useful deps already configured.

Maybe this can help you more with your projects in general.

[Guillermo-HR]

Thanks for the response, but I decided that in order to follow without issues the tutorial to create the react app using react v18