Node error Cannot read property 'resolve' of undefined

Question

I am using reactjs and am unable to install any packages using npm install. The error message I\'m getting is :

npm ERR! Cannot read property \'reso         


        

Answer 1

The same issue occurred for me on FreeBSD after I tried to update a really outdated node installation.

After removing node and npm packages (pkg delete node8-8.16.2) I had to manually remove /usr/local/lib/node_modules directory (some npm dependencies had been left behind and that caused the problem).