react native `pod install` can't find module - but it's there

I'm trying to upgrade from react native 0.60 to 0.62 - I finished all the steps and tried to run pod install, but I get the error below that the module couldn't be found. However, when I cmd+click to follow that path, the file opens. I tried removing node_modules and running npm i - no luck.

pod installmodule.js:491    throw err;    ^Error: Cannot find module '.../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli/build/bin.js(node:41332) ExperimentalWarning: The WHATWG Encoding Standard implementation is an experimental API. It should not yet be used in production applications.'    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:489:15)    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:25)    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:609:10)    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:158:16)    at bootstrap_node.js:578:3[!] Invalid `Podfile` file: A JSON text must at least contain two octets!.