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react native init throwing error ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE(name, 'string', value)

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Hello, I am having some issue with react native init for creating a new project. The error is something like wqeqweasadad

just executing react-native init projectName project creation failed wth ` internal/validators.js:125 throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE(name, ‘string’, value); TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The “path” argument must be of type string. Received type undefined at validateString (internal/validators.js:125:11)

node v11.10.0 npm 6.7.0 yarn 1.13.0

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:22
Comments:37 (2 by maintainers)

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29reactions

mixkorshuncommented, Mar 22, 2019

It works with previous versions:

react-native init --version "0.58.6"

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BenHurMartinscommented, Mar 22, 2019

this is how my package.json looked after the react-native init command:

{
  "name": "answers",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react-native": "0.59.1"
  }
}

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