react native run hello world

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I am using this tutorial https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html#content I am using windows 8. I have print npm install -g react-native-cli. Then

react-native init AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject

Then I have read that on windows I can't use this command react-native run-android so I print node node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.js as suggested here https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/linux-windows-support.html#content And I get the following output:

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Windows\System32\AwesomeProject\node_modules\react -native\packager\packager.js' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:337:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:287:25) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:457:10) at startup (node.js:136:18) at node.js:972:3

Myawesomeproject folder has 2 files npm-debug.log and package.json

So I feel like something went wrong. Ho can I fix this?

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androidnode.jswindowsreact-native
It looks like react-native init doesn't really work on Windows. There might be a possible workaround here - Blake Hair
@Blake Hair so does it properly works on linux or ubuntu? - user2950593
I imagine it might, but I haven't tested it. It looks like a lot of the scripts rely on things fairly common in unix, which is why they don't handle Windows. - Blake Hair
Have you tried the command react-native start, instead calling the packager directly? - purii
From your error message, it looks as if you don't have a react-native directory in your node modules. Have you made sure that you ran npm install before attempting the node command? - Alexander Kuzmin

1 Answers

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It seems like npm is not installed correctly on your machine. You may test it by calling npm install in the generated directory. If it runs successfully and the node_modules folder in that directory is filled your are good to go. You should then run the react-native init command again so it can generate everything correctly.