I am in my initial stages of learning react and have a limited understanding of npm manager and importing libraries into project. For my current project, I had installed react-native using
npm install react-native
This also reflects in my package.json and node_modules folder
"react-native": "^0.61.5"
Now, when I try to import react-native as follows into AppCarousel.js
import React from 'react';
import {Dimensions} from 'react-native';
and then build the application , i get the following error message
.\src\Components\AppCarousel.js
Cannot find module: 'react-native'. Make sure this package is installed.
You can install this package by running: npm install react-native.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! react@1.0.0 build: `react-scripts build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the react@1.0.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-01-09T13_08_54_364Z-debug.log
The terminal process terminated with exit code: 1
I tried referring to the the following questions i) link1 ii)link2
I cannot make out if this is a bug in npm or if there is a lack of understanding for installing packages on my side. Any help will be appreciated, thanks.