My Custom template is not creating the folder structure

[jfhandfield]

I've created my own custom template with my own folder structure. For some reason when testing my template with the npx create-react-app [myapp] --template file:/[folder where my template is] everything is created correctly. But when packaging it and doing the npx create-react-app [myapp] --template [my cutom template] all I have at the end is a bunch of file in the src folder and nothing else.

What am I doing wrong?

This is a screenshot of the before and after.

[jfhandfield]

I figured that I need to put something in the folder before packaging it since git don't create empty folders. Don't know if there is a work around to this but I had to create an empty file in each of the folders.