gulp-sourcemaps: Cannot find module './src/init'

Question

I get an error while installing React-native, I have tried to search for an answer, but I can not find one.

When running "react-native init meet" I get this error:

    This will walk you through creating a new React Native project in /Users/alfred/React/meet Installing react-native package from npm... Setting up new React Native app in /Users/alfred/React/meet module.js:338     throw err;     ^  Error: Cannot find module './src/init'     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)     at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)     at Module.require (module.js:365:17)     at require (module.js:384:17)     at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/alfred/React/meet/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/yeoman-generator/node_modules/download/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/gulp-sourcemaps/index.js:4:9)     at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)     at Module._extensions..js (module.js:452:10)     at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/alfred/React/meet/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)     at Module.load (module.js:355:32)     at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12) 

I don't really get what is wrong...

Answer 1

It's related to an issue with gulp-sourcemaps recent deployment https://github.com/floridoo/gulp-sourcemaps/issues/238

A project maintainer says at the end of the thread that he'll get to it today and

For the time being lock your version down to 2.0.x or 1.7.x

To fix, add specific version in your package.json until the issue is fixed:

{   "devDependencies": {     "gulp-sourcemaps": "1.7.x"   } } 

Use npm shrinkwrap to prevent similar issues in the future.