Hi @ben, thank you for your reply.
The files aren’t outside the root directory and I don’t have watchman, so I tried clearing the bundler cache as indicated here: How to clear the Expo and React Native packager caches (Metro, Watchman, Haste).
However, the issue is still present. That’s really strange! Since I also tested it with moving it to a different directory with underscores, and it works now (so that can’t be it), so the only explanation is that, as you pointed out, there is an issue with the cache in that directory.
But if that’s the case, then why does it still not work even after removing node_modules and deleting the cache?