node_modules/react-native/react.gradle' as it does not exist

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FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.

• Where: Build file '/Users/milanshrestha/Documents/work/hermes/mobile/HermesMobileV2/hermesmobile/android/app/build.gradle' line: 86

• What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.

Could not read script '/Users/milanshrestha/Documents/work/hermes/mobile/HermesMobileV2/hermesmobile/node_modules/react-native/react.gradle' as it does not exist.

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. ==============================================================================

2: Task failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.

compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. ==============================================================================

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BUILD FAILED in 3s

I am facing this issue while running android app i got this issue after upgrading some libs on my project in ios its working fine after some fixes but i got stuck in this. Also after trying all solution from stack overflow questions.

Can anyone help me on this.

Answer 1

follow this:

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/36643#issuecomment-1685371108

Then in android > app > build.gradle: comment-out/delete the line

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle" 

if it exists

then run cd android && ./gradlew clean