I faced this error when I try to run react-native expo cli

Question

I installed expo cli using

npm install -g expo-cli

then I created project named AwesomeProject as mentioned in docs and moved to that folder

expo init AwesomeProject cd AwesomeProject

But when I try to run it using npm start or expo start, I am getting this error and I don't see any output

npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! path C:\Users\Home\Documents\react-native\AwesomeProject\package.json npm ERR! errno -4058 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Home\Documents\react-native\AwesomeProject\package.json' 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\Home\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-03-08T07_02_20_464Z-debug.log

Answer 1

npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! path C:\Users\Home\Documents\react-native\AwesomeProject\package.json npm ERR! errno -4058 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Home\Documents\react-native\AwesomeProject\package.json' 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\Home\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-03-08T07_02_20_464Z-debug.log

Check the bold line. It tells you that you are not in the directory which contains the package.json file.

It is because you have done

npm install & npm start

from not inside the project directory, to solve this issue. first do:

cd AwesomeProject

then:

npm install

npm start

I hope this will solve your issue.

Answer 2

Change:

expo init AwesomeProject cd AwesomeProject

to

expo init AwesomeProject AwesomeProject

Then:

cd AwesomeProject

and:

expo start

You are giving two names to your project.