Create-react-native-app: i can't create an awesome project

[NottherealIllest]

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Description

I'm trying to install react native for the first times I'm a new user, i just want to write code i hate that i have to go through so many installations and fix so many errors, i have created a react native project using

Expected Behavior

create-react-native-app AwesomeProject

cd AwesomeProject
npm start

Observed Behavior

What actually happened when you performed the above actions?

If there's an error message, please paste the full terminal output and error message in this code block:

Last login: Sat Oct  7 08:00:53 on ttys001
Bombatas-MacBook-Pro:~ bombata$ cd AwesomeProject
Bombatas-MacBook-Pro:AwesomeProject bombata$ npm start

> [email protected] start /Users/bombata/AwesomeProject
> react-native-scripts start

08:23:48: Unable to start server
See https://git.io/v5vcn for more information, either install watchman or run the following snippet:
  sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=5242880
  sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=524288

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 logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/bombata/.npm/_logs/2017-10-07T07_23_48_639Z-debug.log
Bombatas-MacBook-Pro:AwesomeProject bombata$ 

Environment

Please run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

• npm ls react-native-scripts: -bash: /Users/bombata: is a directory
• npm ls react-native:/Users/bombata
  └── (empty)
• npm ls expo:/Users/bombata
  └── (empty)
• node -v:v8.0.0
• npm -v:4.6.1
• yarn --version: command not found
• watchman version:command not found

Also specify:

1. Operating system: mac OS Sierra 10.12.5
2. Phone/emulator/simulator & version: iPhone 6 iOS 10.3.2

Reproducible Demo

Please provide a minimized reproducible demonstration of the problem you're reporting.

Issues that come with minimal repro's are resolved much more quickly than issues where a maintainer has to reproduce themselves.

[brentvatne]

hello!

notice the suggestion in the error message:

See https://git.io/v5vcn for more information, either install watchman or run the following snippet:
  sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=5242880
  sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=524288

try that out and if it doesn't work let me know!