CODEWITHSUNDEEP
react-nativeexpo
practical Philosphy
practical Philosphy

Reputation: 11

how to correctly install expo app for react-native

When attempting to install expo, I receive this error:

Something went wrong in downloading and extracting the project files: Could not parse JSON returned from "npm.cmd pack expo-template-blank@latest --dry-run".

expo-template-blank-50.0.39.tgz

Error: Unexpected token 'e', "expo-templ"... is not valid JSON Error: Could not parse JSON returned from "npm.cmd pack expo-template-blank@latest --dry-run".

expo-template-blank-50.0.39.tgz

Error: Unexpected token 'e', "expo-templ"... is not valid JSON.

I tried the following:

But neither worked, what other steps can I try?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 234

Answers (1)

yaken
yaken

Reputation: 162

Try to update your npm version : npm install -g npm or npm install -g npm@latest

If that doesn't work, switch to the lastest version of Node LTS.

  • Install the latest Node version: nvm install --lts

  • Switch to latest version: nvm use --lts

Upvotes: 0

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