create-react-app: command not found after installation

Question

I've installed create-react-app using this command:

sudo npm install -g create-react-app

but when I run:

   create-react-app my-app

I get this:

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

I'm using OSX so I've updated the .bash_profile to this as instructed after installing node

export PATH=$HOME/.node_modules_global/bin:$PATH

It's frustrating because it works perfectly fine on my other Mac and I've read countless forums trying to troubleshoot the issue. Can anyone shed some light on this issue for me without being rude?

Answer 1

I needed to add this to my .bash_profile

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/rafaelheard/.npm-packages/bin

then restart the Terminal