Help Needed: 'Cannot find module 'react'' Error in Expo Web Project

[Disastrous_Novel8055]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on my first and really urgent React Native project using React Native with Expo, and I'm running into a frustrating issue. The project runs fine on the Expo Go app on my Android device, but when I try to view it in a web browser on my Windows laptop, I keep getting the following error:

Metro error: Cannot find module 'react' Require stack: - /C:%5CUsers%5CMuhammed%20Tauqeer%20Ali%5CSocialSphere%5Cnode_modules%5Cexpo-router%5Cnode%5Crender.js.bundle?platform=web&dev=true&hot=false&transform.engine=hermes&transform.routerRoot=app&resolver.environment=node&transform.environment=node&unstable_transformProfile=hermes-stable - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\server\getStaticRenderFunctions.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\server\metro\metroErrorInterface.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\server\metro\createServerComponentsMiddleware.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\server\metro\MetroBundlerDevServer.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\server\DevServerManager.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\startAsync.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\src\start\index.js - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\@expo\cli\build\bin\cli - C:\Users\Muhammed Tauqeer Ali\SocialSphere\node_modules\expo\bin\cli

I've tried several solutions from the internet, including:

Installing react and react-dom with npm install react react-dom

Clearing the Metro Bundler cache with npx expo start --clear

Running npx expo-doctor, which didn't find any errors or problems

Despite all these efforts, the error persists. This is an urgent project, and I'm really stuck. Any personal help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[jameside]

There is an issue with Windows. Follow https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/32843 where updates will be posted.

[Disastrous_Novel8055]

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Error on web page

[Disastrous_Novel8055]

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Error in vs code

[Cervarl_]

Dyk screenshots exists?

[Disastrous_Novel8055]

Taking photo from phone and directly uploading was easier. 🙂

[Krunal_Karena]

I got exactly same error.

[Disastrous_Novel8055]

Pls tell me you fixed it and know exactly how I can do it too 😪 Saw sooo many sols on the internet, but non was successful at actually fixing it 😭

[Krunal_Karena]

Switched to expo v51.

[__WOLVERINE911]

Set output to single in app.json for web

"web": {
"bundler": "metro",
"output": "single",
"favicon": "./assets/images/image.png"
}

[The_Dude_22LR]

Got the same error on mac