Question: I have never faced this issue with the good old

`create-react-app`

but this time I use the 

`npx create-react-app`

to create a react app. this is the screenshot of the progress. It stops right there.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BCXK0.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BCXK0.jpg)

Information:
Node v10.16.3
NPM v6.13.6
Windows 10 64-bit

Answer: 
Maybe you have installed `create-react-app` globally.

<https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started/>

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> If you've previously installed create-react-app globally via npm install -g create-react-app, we recommend you uninstall the package using npm uninstall -g create-react-app to ensure that npx always uses the latest version.
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It looks like my NPM Cache or the whole NPM is corrupted. I have to uninstall and delete manually the cache inside 

> 
> Users/User/AppData/Roaming
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> 
> 

to make sure no package is installed globally. After that I reinstall Node JS and everything works exactly as expected.