Error: Failed to get SHA-1 for <projectPath>\node_modules\metro-runtime\src\polyfills\require.js

[danielaloycedaniel]

I have been getting this error below. I do not know if it's me messing up or metro itself messing things up:

ERROR

Error: Failed to get the SHA-1 for: C:\dev\app\project\node_modules\metro-runtime\src\polyfills\require.js.

Potential causes:

1) The file is not watched. Ensure it is under the configured `projectRoot or watchFolders.

2) Check blocklist in your metro.config.js and make sure it isn't excluding the file path.

try refreshing your app. 

3) The file may have been deleted since it was resolved

4) Otherwise, this is a bug in Metro or the configured resolver please report it.

DependencyGraph.getOrComputeShal (C:\dev\app\project\node_modules\metro\src\node-haste\DependencyGraph.js:202:13)

at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues: 103:5) at

at async Transformer.transformFile (C:\dev\app\project\node_modules\metro\src\DeltaBundler\Transformer.js:102:22)

Am running on:  node version: v24.13.0

npm version: 11.17.0

And my metro.config.js:

const { getDefaultConfig, mergeConfig } = require('@react-native/metro-config');
const path = require('path');

/**
 * Metro configuration
 * https://reactnative.dev/docs/metro
 *
 * @type {import('@react-native/metro-config').MetroConfig}
 */
const config = {
  projectRoot: path.resolve(__dirname),
};

module.exports = mergeConfig(getDefaultConfig(__dirname), config);

I have tried to deleted metro cache on temp folder, deleting package-lock.json, deleting npm_modules and running npm install but nothing seems to work at all.