Getting Error: Cannot find module './src/init' when trying to initialize a react native app

Question

When I try to install react native with the command react-native init ProjectName

I get the following:

This will walk you through creating a new React Native project in C:\Users\Xegano\Documents\ProjectName
Installing react-native package from npm...
Setting up new React Native app in C:\Users\Xegano\Documents\ProjectName
module.js:457
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './src/init'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Xegano\Documents\ProjectName\node_modules\gulp-sourcemaps\index.js:4:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (C:\Users\Xegano\Documents\ProjectName\node_modules\babel-register\lib\node.js:152:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)

Why does this happen? It used to work earlier the only thing I remember I changed is some packages from the SDK Manager. Could it be that?

Answer 1

It is a bug in gulp-sourcemaps 2.1.0, which has been recently released. Here is an issue for it on GitHub: https://github.com/floridoo/gulp-sourcemaps/issues/238. I believe it should be fixed soon, meanwhile you can downgrade it to 2.0.x or 1.7.x.

Update: Thanks to this GitHub comment I was able to make it work with the following steps:

$ mkdir MyProject
$ cd MyProject
$ npm i gulp-sourcemaps@1.7
$ cd ..
$ react-native init MyProject # answer yes

Answer 2

Actually it worked in my case but I was required to downgrade gulp-sourcemaps to version 1.7

$ cd MyProject
$ rm -rf node_modules/gulp-sourcemaps
$ npm install gulp-sourcemaps@1.7
$ cd ..
$ react-native init MyProject

Answer 3

This is now fixed "src" was not included in package.json. https://github.com/floridoo/gulp-sourcemaps/issues/238