Create-react-native-app: missing script: start

[Opty1712]

Description

After completing these 4 steps

$ npm install -g create-react-native-app
$ create-react-native-app my-app
$ cd my-app/
$ npm start

I got this error:

npm start
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
npm ERR! node v5.9.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.7.3

npm ERR! missing script: start

When I open package.json I see only

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "devDependencies": {
    "react-native-scripts": "0.0.40"
  }
}

[brentvatne]

what version of windows is "Windows_NT 6.1.7601"?

[Opty1712]

Windows 7

С уважением,
Андрей понедельник, 17 июля 2017г., 22:28 +03:00 от Brent Vatne [email protected] :

what version of windows is "Windows_NT 6.1.7601"?
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[webdevbrian]

Same issue here

[brentvatne]

Something must be wrong with that version of npm, I'd recommend 4.6.1 or yarn. Notice that the only dependency that is installed is react-native-scripts, it should be installing react-native, expo, and a few more.

[Opty1712]

with these versions it works fine!

$ node -v
v7.3.0
$ npm -v
3.10.10

[bob-zs]

Can confirm @brentvatne.
Was using node version 8.2.1 and npm version 5.3.0 and got the same error.
Downgrading everything to node 6.11.1 and npm 4.6.1, which did fixed it.

[webdevbrian]

Used yarn here, that worked for me.

[sarancruzer]

After completing these steps

$ npm install -g create-react-native-app
$ create-react-native-app AwesomeProject
$ cd AwesomeProject
$ npm start

I got this error:

npm ERR! missing script: start

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/saravanan/.npm/_logs/2017-09-22T13_47_56_942Z-debug.log

npm ERR! missing script: start

this versions i have used

$ node -v
v8.4.0
$ npm -v
5.3.0

[SDJLee]

use npm 4.6.1

[johnlaine1]

Using npm 4.6.1, got the same error

[stoufa06]

@johnlaine1 you need to have nodejs version >=6 and npm version 4
After that you need to reinstall create-react-native-app and delete my-app folder and create project again
that's it

[johnlaine1]

Yup, re-installing creacte-react-native-app did the trick!

John Laine
602.741.0261

On Oct 7, 2017 6:06 AM, "stoufa06" [e-mail] wrote:

@johnlaine1 https://github.com/johnlaine1 you need to have nodejs
version >=6 and npm version 4
After that you need to reinstall create-react-native-app and delete my-app
folder and create project again
that's it

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[vantuan02t1]

I have the same issue:
C:\Users\PC\AwesomeProject>npm start
npm ERR! missing script: start

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\PC\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2017-10-09T09_30_43_954Z-debug.log

Below as my version:
C:\Users\PC\AwesomeProject>node --version
v8.6.0

C:\Users\PC\AwesomeProject>npm --version
5.4.2

[stoufa06]

@vantuan02t1 use npm version 4.6.1 and reinstall creacte-react-native-app and remove AwesomeProject and create again
npm install [email protected]

[stoufa06]

If you are using firewall in linux try open port 19001

[vantuan02t1]

Thank you stoufa06, It works fine now

[nizar2yas]

same issue :
npm version: 5.4.2
node version :6.11.3

[vantuan02t1]

@nizar2yas , please use npm version 4.6.1 and reinstall creacte-react-native-app and remove AwesomeProject and create again
npm install [email protected]

[eniniz]

Yes you were right
here is the command to be executed for those who face the same issue :
npm i -g [email protected]

[wilsonsk]

why is downgrading to 4.6.1 the correct solution?

[RenatoBello]

I have this same issue and I don't know how to downgrade the NPM version.

npm ERR! missing script: start

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/rb/.npm/_logs/2017-11-07T16_06_56_332Z-debug.log

I am using the last versions of the node/npm

I am a Mac user and did not find the 4.6.1 version. By the way, I also would like to know why I need to downgrade to fix it. Thanks in advance.

[stoufa06]

npm install -g [email protected]

[RenatoBello]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I tried to install it and I got a lot of "npm WARN checkPermissions" messages and some error messages:

npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/abbrev
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/abbrev'
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/abbrev'
npm ERR!   stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/abbrev\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/abbrev' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/renatobello/.npm/_logs/2017-11-07T16_52_59_581Z-debug.log

[stoufa06]

sudo npm install -g [email protected]

[RenatoBello]

Thanks you @stoufa06

I installed the 4.6.1 version but I am still getting the same error:

 npm start
npm ERR! missing script: start

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/rb/.npm/_logs/2017-11-07T21_00_17_458Z-debug.log

[jponc]

Encountered this as well using MacOS Sierra

Instructions

# Install npm version 4
npm install -g npm@4

# This should now be @ 4.6 something
npm --version 

# Reinstall  create-react-native-app
npm install -g create-react-native-app

# Recreate project
create-react-native-app AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject
npm start

[cscan]

I love react-native because it always need to do some tricks to do normal things. I have to use latest version of npm 5, so I have to give up react-native.

[montao]

These solutions are not working with Ubuntu 16.04

sudo ./npm install [email protected]
developer@1604:~/node-v8.9.4-linux-x64/bin$ npm -v
ERROR: npm is known not to run on Node.js v4.2.6
Node.js 4 is supported but the specific version you're running has
a bug known to break npm. Please update to at least 4.7.0 to use this
version of npm. You can find the latest release of Node.js at https://nodejs.org/

[nambitable]

node -v
8.9.4
npm -v
5.6.0

same issue. My "issue" is that it doesn't work with the latest version of npm.

Downgrading npm is not an option.

[dann1609]

please check package.json file. Inside you need to check script key:

"scripts": {
"start": "react-native-scripts start",
"eject": "react-native-scripts eject",
"android": "react-native-scripts android",
"ios": "react-native-scripts ios",
"test": "node ./node_modules/jest/bin/jest.js --watch"
},

if you don't see the previous code and only see "test" key. Then copy these lines and add

"devDependencies": {
"react-native-scripts": "1.11.1",
"jest-expo": "XXX",
"react-test-renderer": "16.2.0"
},

[Andrei199541]

Help Me!

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] dev: ./node_modules/serve/bin/serve.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] dev script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-08-22T20_57_09_522Z-debug.log

How can I do?
what else i can?