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Cannot find module './assets/empty-module.js'

See original GitHub issue

Whenever I try to run react-native I get this error:

react-native run-ios
module.js:474
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './assets/empty-module.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:472:15)
    at Function.resolve (internal/module.js:27:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/esen/Github/App/node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/ResolutionRequest.js:20:29)
    at Module._compile (module.js:573:32)
    at loader (/Users/esen/Github/App/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:144:5)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/esen/Github/App/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:154:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:490:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:449:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:441:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:500:17)

React Native version: 0.37.0
Platform: Both
Operating System: MacOS

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Created 7 years ago
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10reactions

rjzcommented, Dec 3, 2016

Also ran into this; touch-ing empty-module.js also seems to do the trick:

$ (
  cd node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/
  mkdir -p assets
  touch assets/empty-module.js
)

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dsummerslcommented, Jan 28, 2017

Since I didn’t intend to run yarn clean I removed .yarnclean and reinstalled the module - sounds like removing assets from .yarnclean would work too.