Tried to register two views with the same name RNGestureHandlerButton

Note this answer was written for Expo v33. Please check with the current documentation for react-navigation and the version of Expo that you are using for up-to-date installation instructions.

The reason for your error is that you are using react-navigation in your Expo app, however you have followed the tutorial incorrectly.

https://reactnavigation.org/docs/en/getting-started.html

If you read the instructions it tells you that once you have installed react-navigation you should then install react-native-gesture-handler. However that is not what they say

Next, install react-native-gesture-handler. If you’re using Expo you don’t need to do anything here, it’s included in the SDK.

It says that if you are using Expo you do not need to install react-native-gesture-handler as it is already installed.

You are getting errors because you have installed react-native-gesture-handler, it already exists in Expo, and Expo is getting confused about where to get its information from.

To solve your problem do the following.

1. Close all terminals running Expo
2. Close the browser window running Expo
3. Clear the project you were working on from the Expo app on your device.
4. Delete your package-lock.json
5. Delete your node_modules folder
6. Remove the react-native-gesture-handler entry from your package.json
7. Run npm i
8. Restart Expo using expo start -c

Be careful when using Expo it is easy to install dependencies that cannot run with it, and cause yourself issues like this.

If you are NOT using expo and saw this error, then you may be using a component which return's a TouchableOpacity. You may get the same error and several script bundling will also happen. To fix that wrap the TouchableOpacity within a View.

So I'm using expo SDK32 and had the same issue.

I tried:

1. rm -rf node_modules && npm install with no luck.
2. Removing react-native-gesture-handler from your package.json and doing rm -rf node_modules && npm install with no luck...

I had success by making sure my version of react-native-gesture-handler was only allowing patch changes in the semver.

old package.json line (when name collision error was happening):

"react-native-gesture-handler": "^1.0.12",

(The ^ here tells npm to bump to highest minor version, which installed version 1.4.1)

new package.json line (fixed the error for me):

"react-native-gesture-handler": "~1.0.12",

(The ~ here tells npm to only bump the highest patch version, which installed 1.0.17 and the error was gone)

I'm assuming some kind of collision was happening having different minor versions?

I think this is what @feihcsim was talking about in their answer.

For anyone else who gets here searching for:
"Unable to resolve "react-native-gesture-handler" from "node_modules@react-navigation\native\src\Scrollables.js""

I found the answer here:
https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/5107

If you're using Expo SDK 34+, despite what older threads says, you need to run the following to get it working:
expo install react-native-gesture-handler