Creating new project fails

Description

I did a fresh install following the instructions on https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html#content, but it fails at the first step:

react-native init AwesomeProject

This results in this output (the packages are installed properly with yarn):

├─ yargs-parser@4.2.1
└─ yargs@6.6.0
✨  Done in 5.86s.
/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:600
      throw err;
      ^

SyntaxError: /private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/index.js: You can only use Class Properties when the 'classProperties' plugin is enabled. (389:2)
  387 |   }
  388 |
> 389 |   static Cache;
      |   ^
  390 |   static Module;
  391 |   static Polyfill;
  392 |   static getAssetDataFromName;
    at Parser.pp$5.raise (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:4380:13)
    at Parser.pp$1.parseClassProperty (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:2508:10)
    at Parser.parseClassProperty (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:5947:20)
    at Parser.pp$1.parseClassBody (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:2424:34)
    at Parser.pp$1.parseClass (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:2361:8)
    at Parser.pp$1.parseStatement (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:1798:19)
    at Parser.parseStatement (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:5719:22)
    at Parser.pp$1.parseBlockBody (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:2223:21)
    at Parser.pp$1.parseTopLevel (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:1733:8)
    at Parser.parse (/private/tmp/test/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babylon/lib/index.js:1628:17)

Additional Information

I first thought it was a node problem so I reverted from 7.6.0 to the 6.10.0 LTS version, same result.

• React Native version: ->

react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: n/a - not inside a React Native project directory

• Platform: both
• Operating System: MacOS

[kumarpatel]

npm uninstall babylon && npm install babylon@6.15.0

[MoOx]

Stop +1 noise. Thanks.