create-react-app
Create React apps with no build configuration.
npm says
46,445
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 46K–46.4K
per week
best guess 46.4K
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
About 0% of npm's count looks like noise. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 10, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use create-react-app?
npm counted 46,445 downloads of create-react-app in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 46K–46.4K look like real installs. Noise is under 1% of npm's count. What remains still includes CI and installs as a dependency of other packages.
Is create-react-app still maintained?
Probably not actively: there has been no release in over a year, though that can also mean it is simply finished. The latest version, 5.1.0, came out on Feb 15, 2025. There were no stable releases in the last 12 months. It was first published on Jul 17, 2016. npm lists 6 maintainers.
Is create-react-app still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 26% over 3 months and down 33% over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 384 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 164% over 11 months, so this one is behind that. Last week, 97% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 5, the latest one; the most used single version was 5.1.0, with 94%. Weekdays get 1.7× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 60 downloads a week, roughly 1 per version.
Monthly downloads of create-react-app
The busiest month was Mar 2026, with about 20,886 downloads a day once publish spikes are removed; the quietest was Sep 2026, with about 6,567.
| month | npm downloads | publish spikes removed | real installs | vs month before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 252,940 | 0 | 251K–253K | up 48% |
| Sep 2026 | 177,317 | 0 | 176K–177K | down 10% |
| Aug 2026 | 226,549 | 0 | 224K–227K | down 6% |
| Jul 2026 | 241,045 | 0 | 239K–241K | down 6% |
| Jun 2026 | 248,973 | 0 | 247K–249K | down 19% |
| May 2026 | 319,466 | 0 | 316K–319K | down 31% |
| Apr 2026 | 450,256 | 0 | 446K–450K | down 28% |
| Mar 2026 | 647,456 | 0 | 641K–647K | up 60% |
| Feb 2026 | 365,845 | 0 | 362K–366K | up 8% |
| Jan 2026 | 375,084 | 0 | 372K–375K | about flat |
| Dec 2025 | 385,551 | 0 | 382K–386K | — |
Whole months through Oct 31, 2026. Publish spikes are found day by day and summed per month. Real installs apply this week's crawler share to each month's downloads (the upper end also keeps the removed spikes), so they follow npm's curve rather than measure it. The change compares spike-free downloads per day.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.