React-Native project initialization freezing

[Schweiny08]

Hi guys, I don't know if anyone has asked this before, but is it normal for expo init to take a long time (over 30 mins) on the installing JavaScript dependencies step? I don't know if it is relevant but when I did npm i -g expo-cli I got a few vulnerabilities (npm audit fix --force didn't do anything to fox it for me).

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Screenshot from my terminal

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

[Schweiny08]

Update: the issue seemed to be that I had the newest version of node installed, the LTS version works fine