Create-react-native-app: Error: React native is not installed. Please run `npm install` in your project directory...

[Jawadgee]

just followed the instructions on facebook.github for create-react-native-app
first got: react-redux 5.0.6 requires a peer of react@^0.14.0 || react@^15.0.0-0 ....
then I uninstalled react-redux now getting this...

ERROR STARTING PACKAGER

Error: React native is not installed. Please run npm install in your project directory.
1:23:51 AM: Error starting packager: Error: Couldn't start project. Please fix t
he errors and restart the project.
at E:\xdl\src\Project.js:1126:11
at next (native)
at step (E:\react-native\hello-world\node_modules\xdl\build\Project.js:1504:
191)
at E:\react-native\hello-world\node_modules\xdl\build\Project.js:1504:361
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: react-native-scripts start
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional log
ging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Jawad Ul Hassan\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2017-09-08
T20_23_51_654Z-debug.log

here is package.json
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwNXojt_xhBGYy1leUxnQ0lTWEE/view?usp=sharing

what could be my mistake or any suggestion about doing it right way ?

[brentvatne]

i imagine you are using npm 5. npm 5 is still very buggy, please either use yarn or npm 4.

npm i -g yarn
npm i -g npm@4

[brentvatne]

(fwiw this is documented here: https://github.com/react-community/create-react-native-app#getting-started)

[sanjay90chd]

npm 5 is buggy please Follow this link: https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2015/09/30/upgrading-to-npm3-on-windows/