React Native starter project bundling fails with Unexpected Token error

Question

I'm trying to create my first React Native app for Android using the instructions on https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html. After setting up the dependencies and connecting my Android device, I ran

react-native init app
cd app
react-native run-android

This starts the React Packager, which fails to bundle with this error:

error: bundling failed: "TransformError: /Users/luky/dev/app/index.android.js: Unexpected token ) (While processing preset: \"/Users/luky/dev/app/node_modules/babel-preset-react-native/index.js\")"

I am using:

• OSX El Capitan 10.11.6.
• node version 6.9.2
• react-native version 0.47.1.

I pushed my generated project, including node_modules, to Github in case it helps: https://github.com/luky1971/react-native-app

Does anyone know why I might be getting an Unexpected token error? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I got the same thing, it looks like the latest version of the babel preset for react native has some bugs (version 3.0.0). I went into my package.json and replaced the latest version with this:

"babel-preset-react-native": "2.1.0".

then I deleted the node_modules directory and ran npm install and it worked.