TypeError: Cannot destructure property `stat` of 'undefined' or 'null'

Might be you are using npm@latest. Looks to me some issue with lates NPM, I have changed my version with RUN npm install npm@6.14.11 -g in my docker file working for me.

When I upgraded to Big Sur, I had the same issue. It's something to do with npm, not react-native.

Here's what I did to solve the problem:

Delete everything related to nodejs:

sudo rm -rf ~/.npm ~/.nvm ~/node_modules ~/.node-gyp ~/.npmrc ~/.node_repl_history
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/node-debug /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node-gyp
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/man/man1/node* /usr/local/share/man/man1/npm*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /usr/local/include/node_modules
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
sudo rm -rf /opt/local/include/node /opt/local/bin/node /opt/local/lib/node
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/doc/node
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp

brew uninstall node
brew doctor
brew cleanup --prune-prefix

And then install nvm again via:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash

Now, I was able to install all of my dependencies since now I've got a fresh copy of npm(for me it was 6.4.1).

As usual, Mac OS updates tend to break stuff.

In case you're using NVM too (like me). I faced this issue too and found that NVM is using a node version called 'system'. I never seen it before and NVM should be using the version I set it to use.

So I decided to update NVM. (See: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/blob/master/README.md#installing-and-updating)

Seems to work after that.

You shouldn't be using npm install -g react-native.

Please read through the React Native docs on how to do your environment setup: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup

In case that you have the same error when running any command that has npm, you might have wrong npm version with node 8.

Running this will reverse your npm to node 6.

curl -qs https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh|npm_install=6.14.11 sh

Reference: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2599