Getting "Cannot read property 'pickAlgorithm' of null" error in react native

Question

I get an error when running npm install. The error is:

npm ERR! Cannot read property 'pickAlgorithm' of null

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!    npm-cache\_logs\2021-10-14T08_03_47_266Z-debug.log

I did the following but the error stays:

1. Deleted node-modules
2. Deleted the given file
3. Running npm cache clear --force

Environment:

OS: Windows 10
react native: 0.65.1
Node: 14.17.4
npm: 7.21.0

Answer 1

The only thing that helped me was clearing cache:

npm cache clear --force

Answer 2

please use following:

npm cache clear --force

npm install

in my case it is working

Answer 3

This works magically

npm cache clear --force

Answer 4

npm cache clear --force

Then npm install would certainly work.

Usually Windows users encounter this problem.

Answer 5

It seems that running

npm cache clear --force

Is what worked and recommended by everyone. Unfortunately, it did not work for me. There were other suggestions to save-dev first. This also did not work for me.

What I did in order to overcome this issue myself, was narrowing my package.json dependencies. I removed all of them, and kept returning them incrementally until I found the dependency that was causing the issue. I updated the dependency version, and this was what I needed to overcome this issue.