"Error: Reanimated 2 failed to create a worklet, maybe you forgot to add Reanimated's babel plugin?"

Question

I am trying to use createDrawerNavigator via
import { createDrawerNavigator } from '@react-navigation/drawer';
in React Native.
However, I am getting the error below, which I don't know how to solve.

Error: Requiring module "node_modules\react-native-reanimated\src\Animated.js", which threw an exception: Error: Reanimated 2 failed to create a worklet, maybe you forgot to add Reanimated's babel plugin?

In babel.config.js, I tried the code below, but it's not working :

module.exports = function(api) {
  api.cache(true);
  return {
    presets: ['babel-preset-expo'],
    plugins: [
      'react-native-reanimated/plugin',
    ]
  };
};

Here is my component :

import * as React from 'react';
import { Button, View } from 'react-native';
import { createDrawerNavigator } from '@react-navigation/drawer';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';

function HomeScreen({ navigation }) {
  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
      <Button
        onPress={() => navigation.navigate('Notifications')}
        title="Go to notifications"
      />
    </View>
  );
}

function NotificationsScreen({ navigation }) {
  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
      <Button onPress={() => navigation.goBack()} title="Go back home" />
    </View>
  );
}

const Drawer = createDrawerNavigator();

export default function MyDrawer() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Drawer.Navigator initialRouteName="Home">
        <Drawer.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} />
        <Drawer.Screen name="Notifications" component={NotificationsScreen} />
      </Drawer.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Answer 1

Please complete the setup for react-native-reanimated. You have to add 'react-native-reanimated/plugin', in the babel.config.js file so the final code in babel.config.js will look like

module.exports = {
      ...
      plugins: [
          ...
          'react-native-reanimated/plugin',
      ],
  };

As state in the setup docs for react-native-reanimatedHere

Also you need to complete setup for android as well (if not done yet) as stated Here

If you are using expo then follow these steps

Finally, run expo r -c to clear the cache.

Answer 2

If you are using expo. Set this in babel.config.js:

module.exports = function(api) {
  api.cache(true);
  return {
    presets: ['babel-preset-expo'],
    plugins: ['react-native-reanimated/plugin'],
  };
};

Note: If you load other Babel plugins, the Reanimated plugin has to be the last item in the plugins array

After you add the Babel plugin, restart your development server and clear the bundler cache: expo start --clear.