diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/cr/create-react-app/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/cr/create-react-app/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a2d2172d9f4..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/cr/create-react-app/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildNpmPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-}:
-
-buildNpmPackage rec {
-  pname = "create-react-app";
-  version = "5.0.1";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "facebook";
-    repo = "create-react-app";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-nUvJRxBZ98ogSkbw8ciFYtZRQNFD6pLThoEjeDMcGm0=";
-  };
-
-  npmDepsHash = "sha256-diGu53lJi+Fs7pTAQGCXoDtP7YyKZLIN/2Wo+e1Mzc4=";
-
-  env.PUPPETEER_SKIP_DOWNLOAD = true;
-
-  npmWorkspace = "packages/create-react-app";
-
-  dontNpmBuild = true;
-
-  meta = {
-    changelog = "https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/${src.rev}/CHANGELOG.md";
-    description = "Create React apps with no build configuration";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-    mainProgram = "create-react-app";
-    maintainers = [ ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 3a439c5a67c6..7834f08c7a4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ mapAliases {
   containerpilot = throw "'containerpilot' has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2024-06-09
   crack_attack = throw "'crack_attack' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream."; # Added 2024-12-04
   crackmapexec = throw "'crackmapexec' has been removed as it was unmaintained. Use 'netexec' instead"; # 2024-08-11
+  create-react-app = throw "'create-react-app' has been removed as it was deprecated. Upstream suggests using a framework for React."; # Added 2025-05-17
   critcl = tclPackages.critcl; # Added 2024-10-02
   crunchy-cli = throw "'crunchy-cli' was sunset, see <https://github.com/crunchy-labs/crunchy-cli/issues/362>"; # Added 2025-03-26
   cudaPackages_10_0 = throw "CUDA 10.0 has been removed from Nixpkgs, as it is unmaintained upstream and depends on unsupported compilers"; # Added 2024-11-20