Can't create react native app. Input is required, but expo is in non-interactive mode

Question

I just started learning react native and I'm stuck at the beginning. I installed react native with npm install -g create-react-native-app, but when i try to create app with create-react-native-app it just says:

Input is required, but expo is in non-interactive mode. Required
input:
> Choose a template:

Answer 1

are you using git bash? try to use normal cmd to create the project

Answer 2

you can't run the CLI in 'interactive mode' if you are using Git Bash, instead, you can use cmd, but if you insist on using Git Bash then you need to pass 2 arguments: name and template . so instead of

expo init <project-name>

you'd actually pass:

expo init <project-name> --template <one-of-the-predefined-templates> --name <AppName>

for example, expo init facebook-clone --template blank --name FacebookClone

the template argument defines how much boilerplate the project is initiated with
the name argument defines the app name (as shown in the home screen or even in Expo itself)