Create React App with an older version of node

Question

I am trying to use Create React App but getting an error that it requires Node 10 or higher. My node version is Node 8.10.0 and there's no way for me to update the Node version since it's a work machine. Is there any way to run an older version of Create React App to work with my older Node version?

Answer 1

I managed to run it. It seems like the last versions of the packages which support Node 8.xx are 3.4.1 for create-react-app and 3.1.1 for react-scripts . What I did:

npm uninstall -g create-react-app
npm install -g create-react-app@3.4.1
create-react-app my-app --scripts-version 3.1.1

But it's better to update your Node version to the actual (or LTS at least).

Answer 2

From my understanding you can add the flag --scripts-version to your npx create-react-app command. So for example if you wanted to run react version 15.6 you would run something like:

npx create-react-app appname --scripts-version 1.0.14

You can reference the react-script repo as well as the NPM Package for more information on which version of the script you would want to run. Hopefully this helped. If not please let me know and I'm more than willing to try and look more into it.

Edit:

Forgot to mention that you need to make sure to change the versions of react and react dom within your package.json after. So after installing you would run:

npm i react@15.6
npm i react-dom@15.6