npm ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'children')

Question

I am on my VSCode terminal and when I try using npm install or to install any package, I get this error:

npm ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'children')

I have cleared cache using: npm cache clear --force and have run npm install again and all still remains the same.

What can I do?

Answer 1

I came across a solution Here to downgrade the Npm by running this in terminal:

npm install -g [email protected]

And it worked.