# Cant start an expo project

**URL:** <https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/cant-start-an-expo-project/21869>\
**Category:** React Native\
**Created:** [August 4, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/cant-start-an-expo-project/21869 "2023-08-04T16:49:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![R3dX5118](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@R3dX5118](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/R3dX5118)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/cant-start-an-expo-project/21869/1 "2023-08-04T16:49:28Z")

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I just got into React Native and in the course the first thing to do to setup a react native project with expo was to run :-

`expo init DoneWithIt`

then when I press enter I get this error message

` expo init is not supported in the local CLI, please use npx create-expo-app instead`

does anyone know how to fix this problem and sorry if this question was answered before I read through alot of other forms but couldnt understand the answer

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**Author:** ![delboy1978uk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.codewithmosh.com/delboy1978uk/32/4513_2.png) [@delboy1978uk](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/delboy1978uk)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/cant-start-an-expo-project/21869/2 "2023-08-21T14:53:40Z")

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> [@R3dX5118](#):
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> npx create-expo-app

just make sure you have npx installed and call `npx create-expo-app DoneWithIt `