React native project expected to work on glitch?

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I am teaching a summer camp on coding to teenagers and we are using Glitch. I am trying to get a solid grasp of Glitch so I am playing around with it more deeply (I’ve been using it for a few years now).

I have a project here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/dominick-designs-react-native-app-ekadasi?path=README.md%3A1%3A0

Question: is Glitch expected to load my react native project built with Expo? I imported my github project to glitch from here: https://github.com/dominick-designs/react-native-app-ekadasi

the logs say “this command requires expo CLI”

However, it seems to be stuck on “waking” and “preparing” and will not load the app. I am wondering if this is because Glitch does not install the node modules necessary to run a react app?

the logs say “this command requires expo cli”

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It appears to install the Expo CLI you just need an NPM package:
npm install expo-cli --global

More:

Try that, and good luck with your summer camp, that sounds very interesting!

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thanks for the response. I tried to installed this via terminal. See screenshot here: https://share-inspiration.d.pr/21z2b3

I tried to install using npm install expo-cli --global is this correct? Seems to be taking a long time to install? I also see a button add packages at top of the project. Is there a way to install all packages using something like npm i? Or do I need to install each package individually?

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I think that installing the package via the “add packages” button should work.

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Remember, Glitch hosts projects in containers. You are trying to install it on the Host, not your project. To install it, just type npm install expo-cli or add it to your packages.json file.
That should work.

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I ran this command in terminal but still getting This command requires Expo CLI. in the logs.

is my project public? Maybe you can try installing it?

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Most CLIs need to be installed globally to work.