getting React is not defined on brand new project

[chrisdrackett]

Bug report

Describe the bug

I just started a new next.js project using yarn create next-app I then ran yarn dev within the generated folder and immediately get the error: ReferenceError: React is not defined

To Reproduce

• run yarn create next-app
• choose a directory
• within the above project run yarn dev

Expected behavior

The app runs without error

System information

• OS: macOS
• Browser (if applies) Safari
• Version of Next.js: [email protected]
• Version of Node.js: 12.14.0

[vitaliemiron]

try to update nodejs

[justAdevTV]

@vitaliemiron I don't think it's the node version.

Node.js 10.13 or later

See from here: https://nextjs.org/docs#system-requirements

[justAdevTV]

What does your package.json look like?

[timneutkens]

Converted to a github discussion given this is not reproducible.

[chrisdrackett]

I think this might have had to do with me having a next.config.js or package.json above this project folder (I created the project within another repo). I'm not entirely sure, but it seems that doing this outside of the folder I did it in originally fixed the issue.