Unable to resolve module console from /node_modules/@testing-library/react-native/build/helpers/logger.js

[caralin3]

Unable to resolve module console from /node_modules/@testing-library/react-native/build/helpers/logger.js

I am trying to build and run my app locally via react-native run-android, but the build is failing with the following from @testing-library/react-native/. When I remove the @testing-library/react-native/ library, I don't get this error, but I want to use this library for testing.

BUILD FAILED in 37s
error Failed to install the app.
error Unable to resolve module console from /node_modules/@testing-library/react-native/build/helpers/logger.js: console could not be found within the project or in these directories: node_modules/@testing-library/react-native/node_modules node_modules
  6 | exports.logger = void 0;  7 | var _chalk = _interopRequireDefault(require("chalk"));
> 8 | var nodeConsole = _interopRequireWildcard(require("console"));  | ^  9 | var _redent = _interopRequireDefault(require("redent"));  10 | var nodeUtil = _interopRequireWildcard(require("util"));  11 | function _getRequireWildcardCache(e) { if ("function" != typeof WeakMap) return null; var r = new WeakMap(), t = new WeakMap(); return (_getRequireWildcardCache = function (e) { return e ? t : r; })(e); }. FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:createBundleJsAndAssets'.
> Process 'command 'node'' finished with non-zero exit value 1 * Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
> Get more help at https://help.gradle.org. BUILD FAILED in 37s.
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
error Command failed with exit code 1

Here are the relevant libraries I have in my package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "react": "18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "18.2.0",
    "react-native": "^0.73.8",
}
...
"devDependencies": {
    "@testing-library/react-native": "^13.0.1",
    "eslint-plugin-testing-library": "^7.1.1",
    "react-test-renderer": "18.2.0",
    "setimmediate": "^1.0.5",
}

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[mdjastrzebski]

Interesting, thanks for reporting this. RNTL should not cause build errors as it's a dev deps, not a runtime one.

Perhaps you are importing @testing-library/react-native in some of the regular code files instead of only in the test files.

[caralin3]

Oh you're right @mdjastrzebski. I had a utils/test-utils.tsx file exported in an index file in utils/index.ts instead of just importing the file ../utils/test-utils in the test file only.

Thanks for the help!