Problem: npm install was failing with the error: Error: Expected "0.21.5" but got "0.18.20" This occurred because esbuild's install.js validates that the installed binary version matches the package.json version, but was finding an older cached binary. Root cause: The .npmrc setting `optional=false` was preventing esbuild from downloading its platform-specific binary package (@esbuild/darwin-arm64, etc.). These platform binaries are marked as optionalDependencies in esbuild's package.json. Without the correct platform binary, esbuild's postinstall script would find a stale/cached binary from a previous installation and fail the version check. Troubleshooting steps taken: 1. Attempted rm -rf node_modules && npm install - same error 2. Cleared npm cache with npm cache clean --force - same error 3. Checked for global esbuild installations - none found 4. Reviewed npm config and found optional=false in .npmrc 5. Ran npm install --include=optional - succeeded 6. Removed optional=false from .npmrc to permanently fix The fund=false and audit=false settings are retained as they don't affect dependency installation, only npm's output behavior. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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