Error with pwa or pwa-typescript installation

[paolord]

First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right repo to put this.

Running npx create-react-app . --template pwa-typescript, installation fails at a statSync error with a missing gitignore file.

Also, after npx create-react-app . --template pwa and running npm start an error occurs with a missing module web-vitals in ./src/reportWebVitals.js. Manually installing web-vitals with npm i --save web-vitals fixed it.

Sorry I don't have screenshots, npm start command cleared my terminal.

Node version: 12.18.3
npm version: 6.14.6

[jeffposnick]

Thanks for pointing that out—we'll get the missing gitignore file added in #4.

In general, though, these templates require create-react-app v4 or higher, which I don't believe has been released yet.

As soon as it's available, https://create-react-app.dev/docs/making-a-progressive-web-app/ will be updated to refer to these templates and you can give them a shot.

(Arguably we could put something in the README saying "requires create-react-app v4 or higher" but that's a little weird since npx create-react-app will just run whatever the latest release is.)

[paolord]

I'm just starting out in PWAs and read the cra docs and some tutorials and expected the default template being pwa ready, but they weren't and it didn't say anything on the docs. I guess I jumped the gun when I read the latest PR on create-react-app, thinking that the pwa-templates were official already.

[jeffposnick]

This should be fixed in the v1.0.2 release of cra-template-pwa-typescript.