Can not start a new project on Ubuntu 16.04, RN 35

[Tiagojdferreira]

Issue Description

Just did a fresh install of React Native on ubuntu and I can not start a new project.
I am using nvm to run node v6.3.1, with npm 3.10.3.
I installed Android-studio, set up path variables, and installed watchman.
Android-studio works fine. (I can start an empty project)
Watchman works fine.

watchman -v
4.7.0

Steps to Reproduce / Code Snippets

npm install -g react-native-cli
react-native init AwesomeProject

Expected Results

Get the following error:

$ react-native init AwesomeProject
This will walk you through creating a new React Native project in /home/tiago/Documents/projects/AwesomeProject
Installing react-native package from npm...
Setting up new React Native app in /home/tiago/Documents/projects/AwesomeProject
module.js:442
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './src/init'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/tiago/Documents/projects/AwesomeProject/node_modules/gulp-sourcemaps/index.js:4:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/home/tiago/Documents/projects/AwesomeProject/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)

Additional Information

• React Native version:
  react-native-cli: 1.0.0
  react-native: 0.34.0
• Platform(s) (iOS, Android, or both?): Android
• Operating System (macOS, Linux, or Windows?): Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial 64-bit

[dtoebe]

Same issue here on Ubuntu 16.10 and Node Ver: 6.8.0;

It only generates the AwesomeProject directory a package.json and node_modules/.

Upon running npm install in the project directory I get:

npm WARN react-native@0.35.0 requires a peer of react@~15.3.1 but none was installed.

[bmathews]

Caused by gulp-sourcemaps/gulp-sourcemaps#238

[sbalay]

Is there any workaround until the issue in gulp-sourcemaps gets resolved?

[nicbarker]

Same issue here on OSX 10.11.6

[Tiagojdferreira]

Go to the folder and do:

npm install gulp-sourcemaps@1.6
react-native android

Then just run the

[sbalay]

@Tiagojdferreira's solution works great. A little clarification for those starting a new project

mkdir project
cd project
npm i gulp-sourcemaps@1.6
cd ..
react-native init project
prompt: Directory project already exists. Continue?:  (no) YES

[nicbarker]

Great, thanks @sbalay and @Tiagojdferreira this fixed the issue for me.

[lacker]

I'm closing since there's a workaround here. Thanks folks for chiming in with fixes!