How does CRA work as an executable?

[nol166]

Hey everyone, I was just curious how CRA works when someone runs npx create-react-app. Does the npx command grab a binary of some sort and then run it or does it clone the whole package and run it from there?

Thank you in advance.

[eddiemonge]

https://blog.npmjs.org/post/162869356040/introducing-npx-an-npm-package-runner