react-native: Unable to init new RN project

Description:

I’m trying to init a new project using npx react-native init projectName --template react-native-template-typescript. It results in the following error:

$ npx react-native init projectName --template react-native-template-typescript

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√ Downloading template
× Copying template
error Error: Couldn't find the "C:\Users\Ori\AppData\Local\Temp\rncli-init-template-aU61ll\node_modules\react-native\template.config.js file inside "react-native" template. Please make sure the template is valid. Read more: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/master/docs/init.md#creating-custom-template

And an empty folder is created. Running just npx react-native init projectName produces the same result.

All of the related issues I could find (https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27442, https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/issues/733, https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/issues/830, https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/26443) mentioned that having RN packages installed globally might be a problem. So before running I confirmed that there are no RN global packages installed:

$ npm uninstall react-native -g
$ npm uninstall react-native-cli -g

React Native version:

As mentioned I didn’t have RN installed. But sometimes it gets installed globally on running npx react-native init projectName.

$ react-native info
error Unrecognized command "info".
info Run "react-native --help" to see a list of all available commands.

$ react-native --version
3.2.0

Here’s some other relevant info:

OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Node: v12.16.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe
Npm: 6.13.4 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.cmd
Python 2.7 - C:\\Users\\Ori\\.windows-build-tools\\python27\\python.exe

Steps To Reproduce

I guess this is working for other people but for just running npx react-native init projectName produces the error. I also tried to reinstall Node and NPM but nothing changed. I’m guessing it’s something with my environment so please tell if you need any more info to debug this.

Expected Results

A new RN project folder should be created with a ready template.

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository:

$ npx react-native init projectName

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 22

Most upvoted comments

Hello friend, Make sure there is no package.json and node_modules at the dir where you are running the npx code. Try again and tell me if it worked.

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wallace-sf on Feb 28, 2020

find same issue. follow this doc i use npx react-native init MyProject --npm and it works.

gitcalculus on Apr 1, 2020

This worked for me: npx react-native init MyProject --template react-native-template-typescript

sophiedankel on May 6, 2020

Is there a solution I have the same issue?

badnutz on Feb 21, 2020

I still have the same error too. Then I try something: npm uninstall -g react-native npm uninstall react-native-cli -g

then install yarn: npm install -g yarn

And well, I can create react native app with typescript template: npx react-native init helloReact --template react-native-template-typescript

MrHOY on Mar 7, 2020

I have same this problem. npx react-native init doesn’t work any more. While this issue is investigating then we can use react-native-cli. It is working well. npm install -g react-native-cli react-native init helloworld 😊😊😊

bachphuc on Feb 29, 2020

Running CMD/Powershell as admin on Windows fixed this issue for me.

randomprogramming on Mar 14, 2020