# Setting Up Your React Dev Environment Easily

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-up-your-react-dev-environment-easily/636205
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-up-your-react-dev-environment-easily/636205 "2017-03-20T01:54:40Z")
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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-up-your-react-dev-environment-easily/636205/32 "2017-11-02T19:58:34Z")

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That is confusing! Hopefully we can skip that. Try entering these commands one at a time:

1. **npm config set prefix /usr/local**
2. **npm install -g create-react-app**
3. Create your new app: **create-react-app my-app**

Does that fix it?

🙂

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