create-react-native-app: missing script: start

Description

After completing these 4 steps

$ npm install -g create-react-native-app
$ create-react-native-app my-app
$ cd my-app/
$ npm start

I got this error:

npm start
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
npm ERR! node v5.9.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.7.3

npm ERR! missing script: start

When I open package.json I see only

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "devDependencies": {
    "react-native-scripts": "0.0.40"
  }
}

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 31 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

why is downgrading to 4.6.1 the correct solution?

wilsonsk on Oct 22, 2017

@vantuan02t1 use npm version 4.6.1 and reinstall creacte-react-native-app and remove AwesomeProject and create again npm install npm@4.6.1

stoufa06 on Oct 9, 2017

I love react-native because it always need to do some tricks to do normal things. I have to use latest version of npm 5, so I have to give up react-native.

cscan on Dec 23, 2017

Something must be wrong with that version of npm, I’d recommend 4.6.1 or yarn. Notice that the only dependency that is installed is react-native-scripts, it should be installing react-native, expo, and a few more.

brentvatne on Jul 18, 2017

node -v 8.9.4 npm -v 5.6.0

same issue. My “issue” is that it doesn’t work with the latest version of npm.

Downgrading npm is not an option.

nambitable on Feb 12, 2018

Encountered this as well using MacOS Sierra

Instructions

# Install npm version 4
npm install -g npm@4

# This should now be @ 4.6 something
npm --version 

# Reinstall  create-react-native-app
npm install -g create-react-native-app

# Recreate project
create-react-native-app AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject
npm start

jponc on Nov 26, 2017

same issue : npm version: 5.4.2 node version :6.11.3

nizar2yas on Oct 15, 2017

Yup, re-installing creacte-react-native-app did the trick!

John Laine 602.741.0261

On Oct 7, 2017 6:06 AM, “stoufa06” notifications@github.com wrote:

@johnlaine1 https://github.com/johnlaine1 you need to have nodejs version >=6 and npm version 4 After that you need to reinstall create-react-native-app and delete my-app folder and create project again that’s it

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johnlaine1 on Oct 7, 2017

@johnlaine1 you need to have nodejs version >=6 and npm version 4 After that you need to reinstall create-react-native-app and delete my-app folder and create project again that’s it

stoufa06 on Oct 7, 2017

Used yarn here, that worked for me.

webdevbrian on Jul 30, 2017