Comment by jamiem

Major npm version bumps have landed mid-stream for node in the past: v18.19.0[1] and v20.10.0[2] bumped npm 9 to 10.

[1]: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.19.0#npm-updated-to-v... [2]: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v20.10.0