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Unable to resolve "./createHandler" from "node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/GestureHandler.js"

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Steps to reproduce: 1- run npm install --save react/navigation 2- run react-native link react-native-gesture-handler (tried it with and without this command) 3- run npm install 4- run npm start 5- run on simulator or on phone expo app and you will get this error

Versions I am using: Expo SDK: 32.0.0 react-native: 16.5.0 react-navigation: ^3.3.2 react-native-gesture-handler: 1.0.17 Screen Shot 2019-03-15 at 08 07 06

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

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daveolscommented, Mar 20, 2019

@dhmoclex I believe the reason this worked is because you implicitly busted the packager cache.

Restarting the packager after running the below commands worked for me:

rm -rf $TMPDIR/haste-map-*
rm -rf $TMPDIR/metro-cache*

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bestkanthedcommented, Jun 28, 2019

Had the same issue. Solved it by: npm uninstall react-native-gesture-handler --save npm install react-native-gesture-handler --save

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