Error when installing react-native-gesture-handler with npm

Question

I am trying to run npm install react-native-gesture-handler but my terminal gives me this error:

SAMETs-MBP:HelloWorld developer$ npm install react-native-gesture-handler
npm ERR! path /Users/developer/HelloWorld/node_modules/react-native-safe-area-view
npm ERR! code EISGIT
npm ERR! git /Users/developer/HelloWorld/node_modules/react-native-safe-area-view: Appears to be a git repo or submodule.
npm ERR! git     /Users/developer/HelloWorld/node_modules/react-native-safe-area-view
npm ERR! git Refusing to remove it. Update manually,
npm ERR! git or move it out of the way first.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/developer/.npm/_logs/2019-05-14T05_27_08_555Z-debug.log

Can anyone help me on this? I searched online but couldn't find anything.

Answer 1

running rm -rf node_modules/*/.git/ from root folder fixed my issue. reference https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-safe-area-view/issues/73

Answer 2

I faced the same issue today. Tried three steps and worked!

1. Removed the folder 'react-native-safe-area-view' manually
2. Removed cache using npm start -- --reset-cache
3. Run the command npm --save install react-native-gesture-handler

Update: I also found out deleting git folder inside the node_modules/react-native-safe-area-view will fix this issue. Thanks @ThaJay

Hope it will help!

Answer 3

Just delete the .git folder inside your_project_dir/node_modules/react-native-safe-area-view. And it worked for me.

Answer 4

use yarn. using npm gave me an error. I tried with yarn, it didn't give any issue.