Error while loading rule 'jsx-a11y/alt-text': rule.create is not a function

Question

I've just used npx create-react-app my-app to start one project and when running npm start i'm receiving this compiling error

Error while loading rule 'jsx-a11y/alt-text': rule.create is not a function
Occurred while linting my-app/src/index.js

user_8632685 · Answer

You've probably hit https://github.com/jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y/issues/824 where Version 6.5.0 was causing this issue while it was marked as latest on npm. A fix has now been released with version 6.5.1 and it solved the issue for me.