WebPackError: ENOENT: no such file or directory /public/.iconstats.json'

I’ve just installed the gatsby-plugin-favicon but I get this WebpackError: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/daniel/Projects/personal_blog/public/.iconstats.json' error when I try to build the project?

module.exports = {
	plugins: [
		{
			resolve: `gatsby-plugin-favicon`,
			options: {
				logo: "./src/images/rev4_cropped.png",

				// WebApp Manifest Configuration
				appName: 'Gatsby site',
				appDescription: null,
				developerName: null,
				developerURL: null,
				dir: 'auto',
				lang: 'en-US',
				background: '#fff',
				theme_color: '#fff',
				display: 'standalone',
				orientation: 'any',
				start_url: '/',
				version: '1.0',

				icons: {
					android: true,
					appleIcon: true,
					appleStartup: true,
					coast: false,
					favicons: true,
					firefox: true,
					opengraph: false,
					twitter: false,
					yandex: false,
					windows: false
				}
			}
		},
		'gatsby-plugin-robots-txt',
		'gatsby-remark-copy-linked-files',
		'gatsby-transformer-sharp',
		'gatsby-plugin-sharp',
		'gatsby-plugin-styled-components',
		{
			resolve: 'gatsby-transformer-remark',
			options: {
				plugins: [
					'gatsby-remark-katex',
					{
						resolve: 'gatsby-remark-images',
						options: {
							maxWidth: 1080 
						}
					},
					{
						resolve: 'gatsby-remark-prismjs',
						options: {
							// Class prefix for <pre> tags containing syntax highlighting;
							// defaults to 'language-' (eg <pre class="language-js">).
							// If your site loads Prism into the browser at runtime,
							// (eg for use with libraries like react-live),
							// you may use this to prevent Prism from re-processing syntax.
							// This is an uncommon use-case though;
							// If you're unsure, it's best to use the default value.
							classPrefix: "language-",
							// This is used to allow setting a language for inline code
							// (i.e. single backticks) by creating a separator.
							// This separator is a string and will do no white-space
							// stripping.
							// A suggested value for English speakers is the non-ascii
							// character '›'.
							inlineCodeMarker: null,
							// This lets you set up language aliases.  For example,
							// setting this to '{ sh: "bash" }' will let you use
							// the language "sh" which will highlight using the
							// bash highlighter.
							aliases: {sh: "bash"},
						}
					}
				]
			}
		},
		'gatsby-plugin-react-helmet',
		'gatsby-plugin-sass',
		{
			resolve: 'gatsby-source-filesystem',
			options: {
				path: `${__dirname}/src/pages`,
				name: 'pages'
			}
		},
		{
			resolve: 'gatsby-source-filesystem',
			options: {
				path: `${__dirname}/src/images`,
				name: 'images'
			}
		},
		{
			resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-eslint',
			options: {
				test: /\.js$|\.jsx$/,
				exclude: /(node_modules|cache|public)/,
				options: {
					emitWarning: true,
					failOnError: false
				}
			}
		},
		{
			resolve: `gatsby-plugin-google-analytics`,
			options: {
				trackingId: "UA-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-2",
				// Puts tracking script in the head instead of the body
				head: true,
				// Setting this parameter is optional
				anonymize: true,
				// Setting this parameter is also optional
				respectDNT: true,
				// Avoids sending pageview hits from custom paths
				exclude: ["/preview/**", "/do-not-track/me/too/"],
			},
		},
		{
			resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-sitemap'
		},
	],

	siteMetadata: {
		author: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
		title: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
		name:"google-site-verification",
		content:"Ji_Q-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
		siteUrl: "https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
	},
	// pathPrefix: '/personal_blog'
};

[julien1619]

Are you using Gatsby v2? The last major version of this plugin is only compatible with Gatsby v2.

[rperez2021]

Had the same issue, looked at some other Gatsby Projects I had and I went back to 2.1.1 which doesn’t have that issue. @julien1619 Do you know which version was the last one for the current (not V2) version of Gatsby?