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Description

PS C:\VPS\golive> npx @react-native-community/cli@latest init ReactNativeMealsApp --template react-native-template-js

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          Welcome to React Native 0.82.1!
             Learn once, write anywhere

✔ Downloading template
✔ Copying template
✔ Processing template
⠴ Installing dependencies

error An unexpected error occurred: Command failed with exit code 1: npm install
npm error code ERESOLVE
npm error ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm error
npm error While resolving: ReactNativeMealsApp@0.0.1
npm error Found: react@17.0.1
npm error node_modules/react
npm error react@"17.0.1" from the root project
npm error
npm error Could not resolve dependency:
npm error peer react@"^16.8" from @react-native-community/async-storage@1.12.1
npm error node_modules/@react-native-community/async-storage
npm error @react-native-community/async-storage@"^1.12.1" from the root project
npm error
npm error Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm error this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps
npm error to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm error
npm error
npm error For a full report see:
npm error C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2025-12-06T17_43_53_385Z-eresolve-report.txt
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2025-12-06T17_43_53_385Z-debug-0.log.

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