Unable to resolve module `buffer` in react-native

Packages

• react-native: 0.63.2
• serialize-javascript: 3.1.0 and higher (3.1.0 - 5.1.0)

Use

import serialize from 'serialize-javascript'

...

const var1 = serialize(value)

Error
The application crashes on startup with an error:
Unable to resolve module buffer from node_modules/safe-buffer/index.js: buffer could not be found within the project

Found a solution (in App.js):
npm install -S buffer

import { Buffer } from 'buffer';
global.Buffer = Buffer; // very important

But that doesn't work either and throws another error:

• ERROR Error: Secure random number generation is not supported by this browser.
  Use Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer 11
• ERROR Invariant Violation: Module AppRegistry is not a registered callable module (calling runApplication)

Reproduce the startup failure with React Native 0.63.2 and serialize-javascript 3.1.0 or later, then inspect node_modules/safe-buffer/index.js and the App.js workaround described in the report. Check whether the package can resolve its buffer dependency without triggering the secure-random and AppRegistry errors; done means the reported usage starts successfully.