Getting error with npx react-native start command

Question

As when I run sudo npx react-native start cmd on VSCode terminal for react-native development I have encountered with following error.

watchmanResponse: {
    error: 'resolve_projpath: path `/Users/esoft/Documents/Rutuja/Myapp1/myApp1`: open: /Users/esoft/Documents/Rutuja/Myapp1/myApp1: Operation not permitted',
    version: '4.9.0'
  }
}

Answer 1

I think You Follow from this two at beginning level:

To change the permissions for Watchman regarding the Documents folder, it's under Security & Privacy -> files & folders in the system preferences

OR

Try to change the directory of your project. I had mine on desktop and was getting that error, moved to the home folder and the error is gone

Answer 2

if you are in Linux based OS, try running this command to give permissions to the dir

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/dir