Getting “Cannot read property ‘pickAlgorithm’ of null” error in reactjs

I get an error when running npm install.

npm install -g netlify-cli

The error is:

npm WARN deprecated statsd-client@0.4.7: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.     
npm ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'pickAlgorithm')    

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:UsersHPAppDataLocalnpm-cache_logs2022-09-13T23_14_47_800Z-debug-0.log

Environment:

OS: Windows 10 | reactjs: 18.2.0 | Node: 16.17.0 | npm: 8.17.0

Answer

Run

npm cache clean --force

Then set npm registry

npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/ 

And finally install packages

npm install

This worked for me although I have found other users getting it to work by simply clearing the cache and then installing packages directly without configuring the registry