react-native-windows app creation from scratch fails with "^0.80.0" specified

[barrientosvctor]

Problem Description

The react-native-windows page says that for creating a new project using the 0.80.0 version you must run this command:

npx --yes @react-native-community/cli@latest init <projectName> --version "^0.80.0"

However the following error appears:

error Cannot read properties of null (reading 'major').
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'major')
    at minorVersion (C:\Users\PERSONA\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\2788f5fbd47acb89\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\tools\npm.js:113:15)
    at getTemplateVersion (C:\Users\PERSONA\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\2788f5fbd47acb89\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\tools\npm.js:155:26)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:103:5)
    at async createTemplateUri (C:\Users\PERSONA\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\2788f5fbd47acb89\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\commands\init\version.js:53:29)
    at async createProject (C:\Users\PERSONA\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\2788f5fbd47acb89\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\commands\init\init.js:354:23)
    at async Object.initialize [as func] (C:\Users\PERSONA\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\2788f5fbd47acb89\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\commands\init\init.js:434:7)
    at async Command.handleAction (C:\Users\PERSONA\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_npx\2788f5fbd47acb89\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:137:9)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
Assertion failed: !(handle->flags & UV_HANDLE_CLOSING), file src\win\async.c, line 76

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open a prompt with npx in %PATH%
2. Run the command npx --yes @react-native-community/cli@latest init <projectName> --version "^0.80.0"

Expected Results

This process should create a new React Native project for Windows.

CLI version

20.0.2

Environment

error: unknown command 'info'
(Did you mean init?)

Community Modules

No response

Target React Native Architecture

None

Target Platform Version

None

Visual Studio Version

None

Build Configuration

None

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

This issue is the same than this #15081, however it's still happening in the package's latest documentation.

[barrientosvctor]

Again, the solution to this is the same the GitHub issue previously mentioned recommends: Remove the "" signs around the version. Looking like this: npx --yes @react-native-community/cli@latest init <projectName> --version ^0.80.0