How to fix this react native error | error: ReferenceError: SHA-1 for file

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error: ReferenceError: SHA-1 for file /usr/local/lib/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/metro/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/assets/empty-module.js (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/metro/src/node-haste/DependencyGraph/assets/empty-module.js) is not computed.

I had this error for a while and fixed it. any of you all having the same error just use the command below..

FIX. : npm i -g react-native-cli

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