Breaks expo

[ekkis]

merely installing this module makes my Expo app break. I get something like:

# npm start

@ start /Users/ekkis/dev/tst
expo start

Starting project at /Users/ekkis/dev/tst
Expo DevTools is running at http://localhost:19002
Opening DevTools in the browser... (press shift-d to disable)
Error: React Native is not installed. Please run npm install in your project directory.
Couldn't start project. Please fix the errors and restart the project.
Set EXPO_DEBUG=true in your env to view the stack trace.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @ start: expo start
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/ekkis/.npm/_logs/2020-02-06T02_01_02_562Z-debug.log

if I remove the module, app works again. is it fixable?