Can't create a react native empty project, app.json not found

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I am currently trying to get started with react native.

I set up the development environment referring to the documentation, but can't even pass the first step and create an empty project.

I am on Windows 11, Node 16.15.1, and NPM 8.12.2

I keep getting the following error when trying to init react-ative project with expo init awesomeProject

Error downloading and extracting template package: Error: npm exited with non-zero code: 1
× Something went wrong while downloading and extracting the template.

Can't read JSON file: D:\crna\awesomeProject\app.json
└─ Cause: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'D:\crna\awesomeProject\app.json'

Does anyone has a suggestion ?

Apple-Tim · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-29 05:37:11Z

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Clear your npm cache and try again. You can use the command "npm cache clean --force" to clear your cache. This may help if your cache is corrupted or contains invalid data. I hope this is helpful for you.

answered Oct 29, 2023 at 5:37

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xiaxuan chen · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-29 05:29:05Z

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Same error.

Probably there are something wrong with npx/npm, try npx -v or npm -v to check if npx/npm works properly.

I found my npm/npx system environment variable path is duplicated and after I deleted the wrong one and reboot my system, it works.

Then I tried expo init and everything goes perfect.

answered Oct 29, 2023 at 5:29

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FTlemsani · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-27 10:37:32Z

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Don't really know what is the problem but i found a soluion that might help other people in the same situation as me! like said here just run in CMD instead of GitBash

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Tarun · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-13 11:43:27Z

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Use sudo if on linux. And maybe Admin on windows.

answered Sep 13, 2022 at 11:43

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