Getting the following error while executing expo init command

3
votes
Installing dependencies...
npm WARN deprecated core-js@1.2.7: core-js@<2.6.5 is no longer maintained. Please, upgrade to core-js@3 or at least to actual version of core-js@2.
npm ERR! path git
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn git
npm ERR! enoent Error while executing:
npm ERR! enoent undefined ls-remote -h -t ssh://git@github.com/expo/react-native-maps.git
npm ERR! enoent
npm ERR! enoent
npm ERR! enoent spawn git ENOENT
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\SAMSUNG\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-04-01T08_16_06_470Z-debug.log
Process exited with non-zero code: 1
Set EXPO_DEBUG=true in your env to view the stack trace.
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javascriptnode.jsreact-nativenpmexpo

5 Answers

2
votes

Please make sure, that you have git installed. NPM requires git for installing some of the packages. You can check if git is installed via:

git --version

If so, according to the reported issue, removing and reinstalling node_modules should help:

rm -rf node_modules && npm install

You can also try to resolve the issue with yarn:

brew install yarn
npm uninstall -g create-react-native-app
yarn global add create-react-native-app
1
votes

It appears to be a core-js version issue.

In package.json, check "expo-core": "version" and if it is lower than the error:You correct the version to fit the error.

and rm -rf node_modules && npm install

or

npm install -g expo-cli

Once you've done it, try running a new expo init.

1
votes

Just check that you've git installed on your system. otherwise, download it

Install git from here - https://git-scm.com/downloads

Your problem will be solved cheers! :)

0
votes

The default expo-template-blank template points react-native to their own Github repo - installing from a Github repo might cause the NPM to hang or err out for various reasons.

To work around this ctrl-c to interrupt initialization when it proceeds to install the dependencies after the project scaffolding is done, edit the package.json to install react-native from the NPM registry - for example this is how my dependencies look:

 "dependencies": {
    "expo": "^35.0.1",
    "react": "^16.8.3",
    "react-dom": "^16.8.3",
    "react-native": "^0.59.10"
//...

Then manually do npm i to install the dependencies and enjoy.

0
votes

This shows when you dont have git installed. You can follow any of the answers above to get it working on local. But if you're facing this issue in deploying a node app, check the node image you're using for deployment. If it is node: alpine then u will get this error.

To fix it, you can use node:carbon image.