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react-native start giving Invalid regular expression invalid error

I followed following link to get started with react-native

Getting started with react native

I tried to create native app without expo so i as per documentation i followed following command

npm install -g react-native-cli
react-native init AwesomeProject

After run android command

react-native run-android

It gave me following error on emulator

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So i used start command to run metro server

react-native start

This command gave me another error in console

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Solution

  • Its compatibility issue of Nodejs I uninstalled my Node(12.11) and installed Node(10) stable version and it worked perfectly.