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"The Expo SDK requires Expo to run" red screen

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Does this module only work with Expo apps, or apps that were once on Expo, but subsequently ejected?

I ask because I’m trying to use the module against an app that has never been on Expo, and it’s red screening with the following error:

The Expo SDK requires Expo to run. It appears the native Expo modules are unavailable and this code is not running on Expo

I’ve added Expo as dependency, yarn add expo. Is there something else that I need to do?

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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brownieboycommented, Aug 2, 2018

@RishabhTayal,

Only the one that I described in my last post, which was to use @wcandillon 's React Native Image Cache instead.

That’s a short term solution only though: the project is not maintained. So I will be looking into this issue again soon, and I’ll post any advances that I make here. I may end up just creating an empty Expo project, ejecting it and then copying over my source code.

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MohammadMoeinFazelicommented, Dec 25, 2018

In my case, this problem occurred because of inconsistent versions of Nodejs and NPM… I downgraded the npm version and the problem solved. I use Node 8.11.3 and should use npm version 5.6.0 but I used npm 6.4.1 . I downgraded the npm version to 5.6.0 by npm install -g npm@5.6.0 and the problem solved… You can see compatible versions of npm and Node at the link below: Node and NPM version

I hope that this solution will also be useful to others…