NPM drains storage space rather quickly when installing dependencies. It may not be a concern for you but is a thing that bothers and busted me once while working on a remote workspace with storage quota.
Note for myself (since I don’t work daily with JavaScript), the perfect NPM replacement: PNPM. There are other benefits other than space saving and other features not available on NPM, but my selling point is: read Twitter testimonials about it.
If you know NPM you basically know how to use PNPM, you don’t even have to change package.json, just install PNPM and add another “p” for extra power.
pnpm install
pnpm run
pnpm start
Try it now.