I face this when was implementing the react-navigation: To solve this issue first we need to install the dependencies correctly for the navigation which we want to use.
I faced this issue when working with stack Navigation:
Install the depaendency >> npm install @react-navigation/stack
npm install react-native-gesture-handler
npm install @react-native-masked-view/masked-view
npx pod-install ios (for mac User)
to very that these are installed properly : open the project in the editor >> go to package.json file >> verify the depencies are there .
Close the application and rebuild it again.