npm doctor wants latest node

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Running the command npm doctor helps to diagnose several problems often faced by package repos organized like this one.

Two things it looks at currently cause their checks to fail:

• running latest LTS version of node
• running latest GA version of npm

We fail these since we have been sticking to Gallium 16.x LTS.

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This may be irrelevant now since switching to pnpm since that is our package manager.

https://pnpm.io/cli/doctor

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Workaround provided if interested: npm/cli#5888

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I had been noticing some other permissions issues flagged by this tool in past and am unsure if it has to do w/ not following the guidance mentioned in npm/rfcs#653:

These all sound great to me; the only time someone should be using sudo with npm is sudo npm install -g when they've installed node in a global place.
—npm/rfcs#653 (review)

We do not currently install globally-installed package managers using sudo, see:

• https://github.com/openinf/openinf.github.io/blob/fdd460a6c85e41e409523ece154549e87b626cee/.devcontainer/post-create.fish#L33
• https://github.com/openinf/.github/blob/803c6c50fd5edc1754a81eedf665316965e3a50b/.devcontainer/post-create.fish#L39

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as it turns out, pnpm doctor is working fine (without any complaints about versions) — closing