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npm start fail for node 8.0.0 and npm 5.0.1 fresh install

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First of all great work.

Description

npm start fails to start packager after a fresh install. See image below.

screenshot from 2017-06-01 15 38 23

Environment

Please run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

npm ls react-native-scripts: 0.0.30
npm ls react-native: 0.44.0
npm ls expo: 17.0.0
node -v: 8.0.0
npm -v: 5.0.1
yarn --version: –
watchman version: –

Operating system: ElementoryOS Loki

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:14
Comments:33 (9 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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brentvatnecommented, Jun 18, 2017

@aswerdlow935 - npm i -g npm@4.6.1 - then install create-react-native-app again and create a project as per readme intructions

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sgb-iocommented, Nov 29, 2017

Hey maintainers & contributors, great work.

A few months have passed and since the end of October, Node.js 8.x has entered LTS and all users installing node via the website (a vast majority I would assume) are installing this version. This ships with npm 5.

Any new users wanting to get started with (or contribute? support in some way?) create-react-native-app now hit a pretty awful barrier - create-react-native-app doesn’t work with new node.js installations 😦

As of writing, nodejs 8.9.1 LTS is shipping with npm 5.5.1 (at least on macOS). I haven’t researched it very deeply, but are the relevant npm bugs still a no-go for create-react-native-app? It would be great to get an update on this even if it’s still a problem.