NPM not working. Cannot find module 'strip ansi'

Question

I just downloaded node but npm is not working. whenever I use a npm comman I get Error: cannot find module \'strip-ansi\'.

Answer 1

For what it's worth, this ended up happening to me, using nvm on mac. npm cache clean didn't work. I ended up reinstalling via nvm:

$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash
$ nvm install node

Answer 2

Solved by doing npm cache clean and then npm install