Build tool fails for Native Module (unknown option '--npm')

[objectiveSee]

Description

✔ What is the description for the package? … sd
✔ What is the name of package author? … John Doe
✔ What is the email address for the package author? … john.doe@example.com
✔ What is the URL for the package author? … https://github.com/dummyUser
✔ What is the URL for the repository? … https://github.com/dummyUser/demo-rn-bob
✔ What type of library do you want to develop? › Turbo module with backward compat
✖ Which languages do you want to use? › Kotlin & Objective-C
🤖 > npx create-react-native-library@latest demo-rn-bob
(node:41543) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The punycode module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use node --trace-deprecation ... to show where the warning was created)
✔ What is the name of the npm package? … react-native-demo-rn-bob
✔ What is the description for the package? … asd
✔ What is the name of package author? … John Doe
✔ What is the email address for the package author? … john.doe@example.com
✔ What is the URL for the package author? … https://github.com/dummyUser
✔ What is the URL for the repository? … https://github.com/dummyUser/react-native-demo-rn-bob
✔ What type of library do you want to develop? › Native module
✔ Which languages do you want to use? › Kotlin & Swift
✔ What type of example app do you want to create? › Vanilla
⠏ Generating example app

error: unknown option '--npm'
(Did you mean --pm?)
/Users/johndoe/.npm/_npx/e106e660d51959d2/node_modules/create-react-native-library/lib/utils/spawn.js:27
reject(new Error(stderr.trim()));
^

Error: error: unknown option '--npm'
(Did you mean --pm?)
at ChildProcess. (/Users/johndoe/.npm/_npx/e106e660d51959d2/node_modules/create-react-native-library/lib/utils/spawn.js:27:16)
at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:635:26)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:520:28)
at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:305:5)

Node.js v22.5.1
🤖 > ```

Packages

• create-react-native-library
• react-native-builder-bob

Selected options

✔ What is the description for the package? … sd
✔ What is the name of package author? … John Doe
✔ What is the email address for the package author? … john.doe@example.com
✔ What is the URL for the package author? … https://github.com/dummyUser
✔ What is the URL for the repository? … https://github.com/dummyUser/demo-rn-bob
✔ What type of library do you want to develop? › Turbo module with backward compat
✖ Which languages do you want to use? › Kotlin & Objective-C
🤖 > npx create-react-native-library@latest demo-rn-bob
(node:41543) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The punycode module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative instead.
(Use node --trace-deprecation ... to show where the warning was created)
✔ What is the name of the npm package? … react-native-demo-rn-bob
✔ What is the description for the package? … asd
✔ What is the name of package author? … John Doe
✔ What is the email address for the package author? … john.doe@example.com
✔ What is the URL for the package author? … https://github.com/dummyUser
✔ What is the URL for the repository? … https://github.com/dummyUser/react-native-demo-rn-bob
✔ What type of library do you want to develop? › Native module
✔ Which languages do you want to use? › Kotlin & Swift
✔ What type of example app do you want to create? › Vanilla
⠏ Generating example app

error: unknown option '--npm'
(Did you mean --pm?)
/Users/johndoe/.npm/_npx/e106e660d51959d2/node_modules/create-react-native-library/lib/utils/spawn.js:27
reject(new Error(stderr.trim()));
^

Error: error: unknown option '--npm'
(Did you mean --pm?)
at ChildProcess. (/Users/johndoe/.npm/_npx/e106e660d51959d2/node_modules/create-react-native-library/lib/utils/spawn.js:27:16)
at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:635:26)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:520:28)
at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:305:5)

Node.js v22.5.1
🤖 > ```

Link to repro

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Environment

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[joepatosh]

I just ran into this same problem. I'm using node v20:

 $ node --version
v20.13.1

It seems to specifically happen with the "Vanilla" option - "Test app" seems to work.

this worked:

✔ What type of library do you want to develop? › Native module
✔ Which languages do you want to use? › Kotlin & Swift
✔ What type of example app do you want to create? › Test app

this did not:

✔ What type of library do you want to develop? › Native module
✔ Which languages do you want to use? › Kotlin & Swift
✔ What type of example app do you want to create? › Vanilla

Reproduced on both 0.42.0 and 0.41.2