npx react-native init issue

[grandwaterman]

Description

Downloading template
✖ Copying template
error Error: Couldn't find the "/var/folders/6k/j31dr17d75b0dbs96wyrcv9h0000gn/T/rncli-init-template-wQ7wAu/node_modules/react-native/template.config.js file inside "react-native" template. Please make sure the template is valid.

I followed the instruction step by step from React Native Document, but keep getting this error. No problem starting with Expo, it is smooth and good.

React Native Version

@latest

Output of npx react-native info

error: unknown command 'info'
(Did you mean init?)

Steps to reproduce

npx react-native init reactnew

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✔ Downloading template
✖ Copying template
error Error: Couldn't find the "/var/folders/6k/j31dr17d75b0dbs96wyrcv9h0000gn/T/rncli-init-template-lVm17w/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.

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

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              Welcome to React Native!
             Learn once, write anywhere

✔ Downloading template
✖ Copying template
error Error: Couldn't find the "/var/folders/6k/j31dr17d75b0dbs96wyrcv9h0000gn/T/rncli-init-template-lVm17w/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.

[github-actions]

⚠️	Add or Reformat Version Info
ℹ️	We could not find or parse the version number of React Native in your issue report. Please use the template, and report your version including major, minor, and patch numbers - e.g. 0.70.2

[ThakurBallary]

Based on this Stackoverflow Answer adding --npm resolved the issue for me.

Full command:
npx react-native@latest init AwersomeProject --npm

From github repo react-native-community-cli

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[jsoneaday]

Adding --npm fixed this for me. I used reactnative@latest which gave me version 0.71.6

By way you're too robotic about your demands the point is to make a better product not to follow rules that do not help devs. You could get the likely version by just checking the timestamp of his post and that would limit the possible versions he is using. Then you would do some due diligence and find the nature of the issue.

Very disappointing.

[atlj]

Another fix would be to use an older version of yarn such as 1.22.19

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