react-native: react-native init AwesomeProject SyntaxError :

react-native init AwesomeProject no longer works for me. It did just a few hours ago. I am working on a macbook pro and I have tried:

Restarting
Removing and Reinstalling react-native-cli
Installing Yarn
Different node js versions with nvm

I always get the exact same error:

Last login: Thu Dec  8 17:07:25 on ttys000
192.168.0.104
javac 1.8.0_111
node version v6.9.2
npm version 3.10.9

~ => cd documents
documents => react-native init AwesomeProject
This will walk you through creating a new React Native project in /Users/alexbanks/Documents/AwesomeProject
Using yarn v0.17.10
Installing react-native...
/Users/alexbanks/Documents/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/util/Config.js:43
  cwd: string,
     ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token :
    at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:76:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
    at loader (/Users/alexbanks/Documents/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:144:5)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/alexbanks/Documents/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:154:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/alexbanks/Documents/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cliEntry.js:13:16)

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 16
Comments: 29 (4 by maintainers)

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I was getting the same error. I hit Cmd-D and clicked Debug JS Remotely. The app refreshed and the syntax error was gone.

If I turn off remote debugging, the error returns.

I already had the debugger window open from another project, but if you don’t: http://localhost:8081/debugger-ui

gwmccull on Dec 9, 2016

fallback to 0.38 to resolve this. react-native init MyProject --version 0.38.0

ping @grabbou

sunnylqm on Dec 9, 2016

FYI - Until this gets resolved, you can use rninit (https://www.npmjs.com/package/rninit) to install using the previous version of react-native. This worked for me: rninit init mobile --source react-native@0.39.0

rg1220 on Dec 9, 2016

in file “node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/InitializeCore.js” delete ‘use strict’;

and it works

CmST0us on Dec 11, 2016

This issue seems fairly random. I ended up fixing it by effectively touching node_modules/react-native/local-cli/util/Config.js. I just opened the file up and changed one character, saved, then changed it back, and it started working.

What is more odd is that this caused the packager to work correctly, but watchman watch-del-all && rm -rf node_modules && npm cache clean && npm i didn’t fix it.

In my case, I have been on react-native@0.38.1 the whole time, although I have run @0.39 in another project.

bendman on Dec 9, 2016

react-native init RNGank --version 0.38.0

This works for me.

noprom on Dec 10, 2016

@riyanpratama Please run npm uninstall react-native then npm i react-native@0.38 I hope it will help you. But it is just a trick. Hope the bug wil be fixed soon !

namKolo on Dec 9, 2016

@riyanpratama You can roll back to version 0.38.0 as @sunnylqm said. It works for me

namKolo on Dec 9, 2016

I have the same issue with react-native: 0.39.1 screen shot 2016-12-09 at 1 50 45 pm

namKolo on Dec 9, 2016