Module Not Found error after NPM Install

Question

I'm new to Node and after successfully running NPM init for a node project, attempted to install lodash through:

npm install lodash --save

However, after running that command, I got the error:

npm ERR! code MODULE_NOT_FOUND
npm ERR! Cannot find module 'internal/fs'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/johnwolfe/.npm/_logs/2018-01-07T05_07_16_644Z-debug.log

I've also tried just running NPM install and I get the same error. What possible explanation is there for this error and how can I resolve it? I've tried other solutions on the web and nothing is working.

This is my package.json file:

{
  "name": "notes",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
} 

Thank you for any insight!

Answer 1

Try the following ,

Delete all the dependencies of the project. Reinstall.

rm -rf node_modules
npm install