Gatsby : “type” must be one of [GRAPHQL, CONFIG, WEBPACK, PLUGIN] and no such file or directory webpack.stats.json

[karthickshanmugam0689]

Im trying to run gatsby develop command to see the gatsby server running in my local machine. My gatsby config file has the below statement in it

    siteMetadata: {},
    plugins: [
        {
            resolve: 'gatsby-plugin-react-svg',
            options: {
                rule: {
                    include: /[^.bg]\.svg$/,
                },
            },
        },
        {
            resolve: `gatsby-plugin-styled-components`,
        },

    ],
};

When I'm running gatsby develop, i can see that the dev build is getting succeeded and asking me to open http://localhost:8000 On launching the localhost app, the application is crashing in the browser and in the console i can see the below error

Couldn't read the file possibly due to source maps failing
original error Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '//public/webpack.stats.json'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:498:3)
    at Object.fs [as readFileSync] (fs.js:394:35)
    at .cache/ssr-develop-static-entry.js:24:3
    at public/render-page.js:13382:3
    at Object.<anonymous> (public/render-page.js:13387:12)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1068:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1097:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:933:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:957:19) {
  errno: -2,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '//public/webpack.stats.json'
Failed to validate error [Error [ValidationError]: "type" must be one of [GRAPHQL, CONFIG, WEBPACK, PLUGIN]]

I tried to clean the setup, delete the .cache folder, but whatever i do, i end up in this issue. Could someone help me out if I'm missing anything here to be configured to avoid this error