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

Question

iam getting below error with npm while creating react app

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

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\Nagamanickam\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2021-11-18T12_01_45_525Z-debug.log

Answer 1

I resolved it by deleting node_modules and package-lock.json and run npm install again.

Answer 2

my npm version is 8.1.4 and i solve this problem by running :

npm cache clear --force