I've been trying to start a new React Native project but have been facing this issue for a few days, tried searching for it on a lot of forums but couldn't find any solution that works for me.

The mands I've tried:

npx react-native init MyApp

npx react-native init MyApp --template react-native-template-typescript

npx --ignore-existing react-native init MyApp --template react-native-template-typescript

Someone mentioned removing react-native-CLI using:

npm uninstall -g react-native-cli and yarn global remove react-native-cli

Still, no luck. Would be great if anyone could help out.

BTW, I've Node version 14.1.0

Here is the error from terminal

I've been trying to start a new React Native project but have been facing this issue for a few days, tried searching for it on a lot of forums but couldn't find any solution that works for me.

The mands I've tried:

npx react-native init MyApp

npx react-native init MyApp --template react-native-template-typescript

npx --ignore-existing react-native init MyApp --template react-native-template-typescript

Someone mentioned removing react-native-CLI using:

npm uninstall -g react-native-cli and yarn global remove react-native-cli

Still, no luck. Would be great if anyone could help out.

BTW, I've Node version 14.1.0

Here is the error from terminal

• javascript
• reactjs
• react-native
• npx

• Did you get any resolve ?. I am facing the same issue ! – Ron Astle Lobo Commented Dec 11, 2021 at 6:11
• 2 I had to uninstall yarn to make it work, npm uninstall -g yarn – Ron Astle Lobo Commented Dec 11, 2021 at 6:22
• @RonAstleLobo and what if he wants to use Yarn instead of NPM? – showtime Commented Dec 17, 2022 at 23:36

5 Answers 5

Your version of node (14.1.0) doesn't meet the requirements of the template project.

If you want to stick to node 14, use ^14.15.0, otherwise switch to node 16 (LTS), and re-run the mand.

Check if your "C:\Users\YourUser" has a folder named "node_modules" and/or a file named "package.json" and/or a file named "yarn.lock". If you have them create a new folder (name it whatever you want) and move "node_modules" and/or "package.json" and/or "yarn.lock" to that new folder. Exit the folder and try to init the project again.

You have yarn in your system and to proceed with react-native need to uninstall yarn

npm: npm uninstall -g yarn

brew: brew uninstall yarn

tarball: rm -rf "$HOME/.yarn"

ubuntu: sudo apt-get remove yarn && sudo apt-get purge yarn

centos: yum remove yarn

windows: choco uninstall yarn

(or go to control panel > add/remove programs and uninstall it from there)

Same problem I Faced when I try to run this mand in vs code editor integrated terminal, but I try this on power shell it work fine. So, once try in this way

If C:\Users\username isn't intended to be a project, remove any yarn.lock and/or package.json file there.