react-native: Unable to resolve module react-native

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Description

I recently created a new project using react-native init MyProject. The app ran fine initially.

However now, when I run react-native run-ios or try to use xcode to run the app. I get the following error screen.

I have followed the suggested instructions and have ran the following

rm -rf node_modules
rm -rf $TMPDIR/react-* --reset-cache
rm -rf node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.sh --reset-cache
npm cache clean
npm i

But I still experience the same problem

I have verified that react-native is in fact installed at the correct location.

React Native version: 0.38.0
Platform: iOS
Operating System: MacOS

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 10
Comments: 26 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

+1 - i’ve gutted 2 projects now because of this, yikes

wagstaffwm on Apr 11, 2017

I resolved this using the react-native-git-upgrade package instead of react-native upgrade to upgrade the project. And because of this I had to use yarn instead of npm.

So, i did something like that:

npm i -g react-native-git-upgrade

git clone https://github.com/ifalldev/repo
cd repo

yarn
yarn add react@16.0.0-alpha.6
yarn add react-native@0.43.3
react-native-git-upgrade

rnpm link

react-native run-ios

ifalldev on May 30, 2017

Actually found something. I was getting the same error and just now after my first comment I checked if I had yarn installed and which version. After hitting yarn -v it installed itself and all of the dependancies that were removed during my npm install --save firebase. After the install, in another terminal instance I re-ran npm run start which didn’t have any issues then in the main terminal instance I ran react-native run-ios and that totally ran smoothly. When the problem (which this thread is about) was happening I couldn’t run react-native run-ios because it didn’t even recognize the root folder as a react-native file. Now it does. So give it a try. It doesn’t seem like a quick fix, it seems stable now. Saying that we’ll see how it goes… keeping a watchful eye.

elvenvdk on Jul 11, 2017

Using RN v44.2 and this is happening to me, the workaround isn’t working either.

Jahans3 on Jul 4, 2017

After upgrading to react native 0.45.1 i have same issue. What i did:

npm install --save react-native@0.45.1
react-native upgrade
react-native link
remove node_modules
Clear cache

Result - Unable to find module React Native

artyomtrityak on Jun 26, 2017

I just ran into this in a brand new project. Definitely not stale and none of the suggested actions change anything.

ShawnMercado on Feb 17, 2018

I resolved this with this comment after trying every solution under the sun.

delete ios/ or android/
react-native eject <-- this was what did it for me
react-native-git-upgrade
react-native link
react-native run-ios

arshbot on Jan 3, 2018