[BUG]: Unable to install dependencies with Node 16

[wuuJiawei]

react-native environment setup

• [X] I verified that I have not react-native-cli installed globally and be up to date about the React Native environment setup.

Description

error metro-config@0.79.0: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=18". Got "16.20.2"
error Found incompatible module.

Maybe the same issue like https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/38298

Version

3.7.2

Do you use TypeScript?

• [X] Yes
• [ ] No

On which OS this issue appear on?

• [X] IOS
• [ ] Android

Desktop OS

macos Ventura 13.5

[wuuJiawei]

After upgrading ReactNative to 0.72.2 and removing @types/metro-config, the problem is solved.

[JeremyDolle]

Hello, the solution is to upgrade your Node version instead of removing dependencies. FYI, the current LTS version of node is 18.17.1 so you could easily upgrade it without any danger.