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Expo IDE unable to create new projects

See original GitHub issue

I’ve been attempting to create a new project using the updated IDE however it does not ever finish ‘extracting files’. I’ve left this open for an entire night with no avail. After force exiting, the project appears however the name is not present and these warnings are present in the console.

Warning Warning: Problem validating asset fields: Invalid URI “./assets/icons/app.png”. Warning Warning: ‘@expo/vector-icons’ dependency is not installed. Warning: ‘expo’ dependency is not installed.

If there is an issue running your project, please run npm install in /Users/myusername/Github/exampleproject and restart.

After attempting to npm install, these errors appear in the terminal:

npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/Users/myusername/Github/exampleproject/node_modules/exec-sh/package.json’ npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/Users/myusername/Github/exampleproject/node_modules/exit-hook/package.json’

There are 100’s of these missing.

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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Alonskicommented, May 19, 2017

I also had this issue and came looking here. Opening the console I noticed that NPM didn’t have permissions to write files. I reopened Expo as Administrator and was able to create a project in less than a minute where before it was taking much long if at all.

I am running Windows 10 latest update

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anpcommented, Jun 16, 2017

@lal12 oh yeah, it looks like a version with symlinks was released. This will be resolved when the new starter projects are released early next week, sorry for that!