can't create project using react-native init

Question

I am getting this error again and again when creating a new project using react-native init. I reinstalled react-native cli and tried again but no luck. Can someone please tell me is there anything I can do?

I have following versions installed react-native-cli: 2.0.1 react-native: 0.56.0 node: 10.6.0 npm: 6.1.0

Answer 1

This error is may be because of react native version React native 0.56

Here is the link about the discussion of this issue React native 0.56.* - "Unexpected identifier"

So they suggest us to downgrade the version of react-native React Native Version List

So open the file of your project named as package.json

inside it you can find react-native": "0.56.4" replace this version with react-native": "0.55.4" or what ever the version you want

then save the file

go to the terminal or power sell

rich to the your project directory and run the command npm-install

after installation check the version of react-native by running the command react-native --version and make sure that version is which you changed in package.json

restart your project and you are ready to go without this error

Answer 2

This problem can be resolve in one line code nothing more

$ react-native init [projectName] --version react-native@0.55.4

what this does is that you explicitly tell that you want your project to be created with this specify version