`react-native init AwesomeProject` throwing SyntaxError

Question

react-native init AwesomeProject is throwing SyntaxError: Unexpected token : and I\'m not sure why. I\'ve uninstalled and re-installed react-native-cli

Answer 1

Apparently the new version React Native 0.56.0 has this problem.

To fix this problem, you can install the previous version.

react-native init --version="0.55.0" MyNewApp