This error occurs when I use npm to install npm i jquery
npm ERR! Cannot read property 'extraneous' of undefined
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
You can try the following command. Hopefully, it would solve the problem by removing unnecessary packages.
npm prune
Try removing your package-lock.json:
rm -rf package-lock.json
You can try deleting the node_modules folder in addition to removing the package-lock.json Worked for me