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react-native init throws an error: Cannot find module './clone.js'

See original GitHub issue

Environment

No output. But I got this in old RN project:

Environment:
  OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
  Node: 8.11.1
  Yarn: 0.24.5
  npm: 6.4.1
  Watchman: 4.9.0
  Xcode: Xcode 9.3.1 Build version 9E501
  Android Studio: 3.1 AI-173.4819257

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: NO RELEVANT
  react-native: NO RELEVANT

Description

react-native init <PROJECT_NAME> failed with this error:

Error: Cannot find module './clone.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/<PATH_TO_PROJECT>/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:4:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Reproducible Demo

Simply try to create new project: react-native init <PROJECT_NAME>

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:7

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

gran33commented, Nov 2, 2018

Sure, it’s one of react-native dependencies that just published a fix (this is the fix commit isaacs/node-graceful-fs@a1587ea).

0reactions

alexsmartenscommented, Nov 2, 2018

I did not change package.json

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