null is not an object (evaluating 'rngesturehandlermodule.direction')

Question

I am creating a login system with react-native, after downloading the "react-native-gesture-handler" dependencies: "^ 1.1.0" and "react-navigation": "^ 3.5.1" began to appear the following message error:

null is not an object (evaluating 'rngesturehandlermodule.direction')

I tried to delete the project and reface it, delete and reinstall the node_modules folder and reinstall the dependencies, but nothing worked.

Answer 1

cd into the ios subdirectory of your project and run pod install.

Answer 2

I had the same issue. I then installed react-navigation & react-native-gesture-handler step by step as follows:

Steps :

1. Remove node_modules and package-lock.json

2. npm install

3. npm install --save react-navigation

4. npm install --save react-native-gesture-handler

5. react-native link

You can find the original answer here

Answer 3

1. Stop the metro bundler with Ctrl+C from terminal.
2. Run again metro bundler: npx react-native start
3. Run again the build command npx react-native run-android

Building process maybe take a few minutes.

Answer 4

I was facing this on Android.

All I did is:

1. cd android
2. gradlew clean
3. closed metro bundler
4. react-native run-android

solved my issue