react-native\react.gradle' does not exist

Question

I created an app using react native and I am trying to generate the apk. After doing everthing in the doc of http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/signed-apk-android.html#content. An error occured and it says Could not read script react-native\react.gradle' as it does not exist.

Here is the error

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.  * Where: Build file 'C:\Users\User\Desktop\Aaa\android\app\build.gradle' line: 68  * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'. > Could not read script 'C    *   // override which node gets called and with what additional arguments *   nodeExecutableAndArgs: ["node"], * *   // supply additional arguments to the packager *   extraPackagerArgs: [] * ] */  apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"  /**  * Set this to true to create two separate APKs instead of one:  *   - An APK that only works on ARM devices  *   - An APK that only works on x86 devices  * The advantage is the size of the APK is reduced by about 4MB.  * Upload all the APKs to the Play Store and people will download  * the correct one based on the CPU architecture of their device.  */ def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false 

Answer 1

Go to the project's root folder and run npm install and it will generate the necessary files, including react.gradle

If you don't have node.js, you can download it from here: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Answer 2

you can do npm install

and and all the problems are over.