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I wanted to follow this tutorial (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html) to start learning react-native.

I followed the first steps and I ran into some issues on the command line: expo init AwesomeProject

Here's the log :

PS C:UsersANTDreact_native> expo init AwesomeProject2
? Choose a template: blank
[09:06:11] Extracting project files...
Process exited with non-zero code: 2
ERROR: C:UsersANTD.expostarter-app-cacheblank-31.0.0.tar.gz
C:UsersANTD.expostarter-app-cacheblank-31.0.0.tar.gz
Open ERROR: Can not open the file as [gzip] archive


ERRORS:
Is not archive

Process exited with non-zero code: 2
[09:06:11] Customizing project...
[09:06:11] ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:UsersANTDreact_nativeAwesomeProject2app.json'
[09:06:11] Set EXPO_DEBUG=true in your env to view the stack trace.

I searched on the github page and on forums but didn't find info on this.
I also tried this :

deleted files in .expo folder
npm -g uninstall expo-cli --save
npm install -g expo-cli@latest

But same issue.

blank-31.0.0.tar.gz file is empty with only html tags.
Might be the issue but I don't know what to do...

Thanks

Same issue here, seems like a network problem to me.

I dug into the source code of expo-cli, found the download link for the template:

"templatesv2": [
 
 "description": "The Blank project template includes the minimum dependencies to run and an empty root component.",
 "iconUrl": "https://d306o6r76fnu7o.cloudfront.net/template_icon_blank.png",
 "id": "blank",
 "name": "Blank",
 "url": "https://d306o6r76fnu7o.cloudfront.net/blank-31.0.0.tar.gz",
 "version": "31.0.0"
 ,
 
 "description": "The Tab Navigation project template includes several example screens.",
 "iconUrl": "https://d306o6r76fnu7o.cloudfront.net/template_icon_tabs.png",
 "id": "tabs",
 "name": "Tab Navigation",
 "url": "https://d306o6r76fnu7o.cloudfront.net/tabs-31.0.0.tar.gz",
 "version": "31.0.0"
 
 ],

So I manually download the file and unzip, cd into it and run expo start... and got stuck for about 20 minutes.

After I lost my patience and pressed Ctrl+C to kill this process, then I tried npm run android and it worked!

I also tried npm start afterwards, and it seems to work too.