React native - Error in Expo App - FetchError: request to https://api.expo.dev/v2/sdks/51.0.0/native-modules failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate

CoronaVirus
September 8, 2024
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I am trying to start a new react native expo app by executing
npx expo start but it throws following error

FetchError: request to https://api.expo.dev/v2/sdks/51.0.0/native-modules failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate

FetchError: request to https://api.expo.dev/v2/sdks/51.0.0/native-modules failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (C:appexpo-appnode_modulesnode-fetchlibindex.js:1501:11)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:500:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:169:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:128:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)

UPDATE

I am also getting same error when executing following command

npx expo install react-dom react-native-web @expo/metro-runtime

What could be the probably fix for this? Appreciate your advice.

Answers

- ArifKurdi
- September 8, 2024 at 2:58 pm
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I was facing the same problem, somehow it got something with proxy or network relative thing.
I using Linux Ubuntu and solve it by modify /etc/hosts .
I just define the requested Domain there like this.
```
127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.1.1   ArifKurdi
104.18.4.104 api.expo.dev // The line I added in the file.
```
and Its work fine after that.
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- Michael
- September 8, 2024 at 7:29 pm
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I’m on a company laptop, and I was able to resolve this by setting the NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS environment variable:

How can I set NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS on node

Some other solutions mentioned disabling TLS via NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED, but this doesn’t seem like a good idea for security reasons:

Node Fetch Request Fails on Server: Unable to Get Local Issuer Certificate

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