npx react-native init creates app with wrong version of React Native

Question

Using the following command: npx react-native init MyApp --template react-native-template-typescript --version 0.63.4

or

npx react-native init MyApp --version 0.63.4 --template react-native-template-typescript

creates an app using React Native 0.68.2 - I need version 0.63.4 - what is the correct command?

Update - I have tried this command: npx react-native init ExperienceApp --template [email protected] as described here: How to create specify typescript RN version?

but I get the error:

error Couldn't find any versions for "react-native-template-typescript" that matches "6.5.9"

and I have tried this as in the docs: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-template-typescript#usage-with-older-versions-of-react-native

npx react-native init MyApp --template [email protected].*

but I get the error:

no matches found: [email protected].*

Answer 1

Solved by changing this: npx react-native init MyApp --template [email protected].* to this npx react-native init MyApp --template [email protected]