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Cannot find module '@babel/plugin-transform-shorthand-properties'

See original GitHub issue

Library works fine in 1.10.3. Fails on 2.1.0.

  ● Test suite failed to run

  /node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/lib/commonjs/handlers/gestures/GestureDetector.js: Cannot find module '@babel/plugin-transform-shorthand-properties'

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Created 2 years ago
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Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

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UNIDY2002commented, Dec 22, 2021

I think I’ve figured out the root cause of this issue (at least in my case).

The problem lies with the inconsistency in the versions of babel-related packages in yarn.lock.

To be specific, metro-react-native-babel-transformer requires @babel/core@^7.14.0, but my project package.json requires @babel/core@7.16.5. Just like the following require stack,

error node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/src/handlers/gestures/GestureDetector.tsx: /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/src/handlers/gestures/GestureDetector.tsx: Cannot find module '@babel/plugin-transform-shorthand-properties'
Require stack:
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/plugins.js      <-- @babel/core@7.16.5
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/index.js        <-- @babel/core@7.16.5
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/index.js                     <-- @babel/core@7.16.5
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/react-native-reanimated/plugin.js
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro-react-native-babel-transformer/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/module-types.js         <-- @babel/core@^7.14.0
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro-react-native-babel-transformer/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/configuration.js        <-- @babel/core@^7.14.0
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro-react-native-babel-transformer/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/index.js                <-- @babel/core@^7.14.0
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro-react-native-babel-transformer/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/index.js                             <-- @babel/core@^7.14.0
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro-react-native-babel-transformer/src/index.js
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro-transform-worker/src/index.js
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/metro/src/DeltaBundler/Worker.js
- /home/unidy/repos/THUInfoAdmin/node_modules/jest-worker/build/workers/processChild.js.

So it might bring confusion to babel, causing it to complain about being unable to find @babel/plugin-transform-shorthand-properties.

Simply downgrading @babel/core to ^7.14.0 might not solve the problem, as things get complicated due to the fact that react-native-codegen indirectly requires @babel/core@^7.1.6. Fortunately, there are some workarounds:

add both @babel/preset-env and @babel/preset-typescript to the dependencies (or devDependencies) list of the project package.json file
or simply delete yarn.lock and regenerate it

Finally, if there have to be someone responsible for the issue, at least the responsibility does not lies with react-native-gesture-handler. Perhaps react-native can do something to handle this issue.

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UNIDY2002commented, Dec 19, 2021

It turns out that I have to install both @babel/preset-env and @babel/preset-typescript as dependencies (or devDependencies) to make things work in my project.

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