React-native: Cannot find module './assets/empty-module.js'

[ErkanSensei]

Whenever I try to run react-native I get this error:

react-native run-ios
module.js:474
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './assets/empty-module.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:472:15)
    at Function.resolve (internal/module.js:27:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/esen/Github/App/node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/ResolutionRequest.js:20:29)
    at Module._compile (module.js:573:32)
    at loader (/Users/esen/Github/App/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:144:5)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/esen/Github/App/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:154:7)
    at Module.load (module.js:490:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:449:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:441:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:500:17)

• React Native version: 0.37.0
• Platform: Both
• Operating System: MacOS

[ErkanSensei]

Uninstalling and reinstalling react-native seems to have fixed the error.

[rjz]

Also ran into this; touch-ing empty-module.js also seems to do the trick:

```
$ (
cd node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/
mkdir -p assets
touch assets/empty-module.js
)

[rroehrig]

We had the same problem when using yarn. Creating the empty-module.js by hand is just a quickfix which was not an option for our build server.
Thanks to the yarn community it turned out to be a conflict with the .yarnclean file which contained the assets directory.

Deleting the line assets in the .yarnclean solved the problem.

[dsummersl]

I ran into this when I innadvertantly ran yarn clean. Uninstalling and reinstalling worked - touching the assets/empty-module.js ultimately did not (just ran into more missing files when running my app in the emulator).

[rroehrig]

Did you check the .yarnclean file which is automatically created when running yarn clean?

[dsummersl]

Since I didn't intend to run yarn clean I removed .yarnclean and reinstalled the module - sounds like removing assets from .yarnclean would work too.

[duduindo]

@dsummersl Thanks very much!

[pricetula]

directory doesnt exist >> node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/

[deot]

@rroehrig Thanks;

delete .yarnclean and reinstall