How to resolve the error on 'react-native start'

Question

1. I just installed node.js & cli

   • installed node.js

   • installed react-native-cli

     npm -g react-native-cli
     

Answer 1

This is caused by node v12.11.0 due to the way it deals regular location there two ways to solve this problem

Method I

You can downgrade to node v12.10.0 this will apply the correct way to deal with parsing error

Method II

You can correctly terminate the regular expression in you case by changing the file located a:

\node_modules\metro-config\src\defaults\blacklist.js

From:

var sharedBlacklist = [
  /node_modules[/\\]react[/\\]dist[/\\].*/,
  /website\/node_modules\/.*/,
  /heapCapture\/bundle\.js/,
  /.*\/__tests__\/.*/
];

To:

 var sharedBlacklist = [
  /node_modules[\/\\]react[\/\\]dist[\/\\].*/,
  /website\/node_modules\/.*/,
  /heapCapture\/bundle\.js/,
  /.*\/__tests__\/.*/
];