When initializing react native windows, dependency fails to download

[danielsdesk]

When following the getting started guide for vnext, upon trying to initialize the project directory like this:

react-native windows --template vnext

failed output is like this:

Reading application name from package.json...
Reading react-native version from node_modules...
Checking for react-native-windows version matching 0.59.*...
Installing react-native-windows@0.59.0-vnext.4...
warning "react-native-windows > react-native-local-cli@1.0.0-alpha.5" has incorrect peer dependency "react-native@^0.57.0".
react-native-windows@0.59.0-vnext.4 successfully installed.
Updating to compatible version of react-native:
    0.59.0-microsoft.1 || https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native/archive/v0.59.0-microsoft.1.tar.gz
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/0.59.0-microsoft.1%20%7C%7C%20https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native/archive/v0.59.0-microsoft.1.tar.gz: Request failed \"405 Method Not Allowed\"".
Command failed: yarn
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/0.59.0-microsoft.1%20%7C%7C%20https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native/archive/v0.59.0-microsoft.1.tar.gz: Request failed \"405 Method Not Allowed\"".

[cloudle]

@danielsdesk same problem here, seem that we don't have react-native-windows@0.59.0-vnext.4 yet.

Since latest version of react-native-windows is @0.58.0-rc.2, I tried to initialize react-native at version @0.58.0-rc.2 and it work:

ruui init <projectName> --version react-native@0.58.0-rc.2

(we'll want to upgrade the project to newer version of react-native latter I guess)

[danielsdesk]

Thank you, yes doing react-native init <projectName> --version react-native@0.58.0-rc.2 got me unblocked and the dependency downloaded just fine

[kmelmon]

@acoates-ms it looks like something broke the CLI when we upgraded to 0.59. I think you've likely already fixed this and verified with the new CLI test you wrote.

[acoates-ms]

Yes, this should be fixed by #2641