npm i -g npm

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Collids with our graal npm wrapper and we would need that wrapper for pnpm and yarn also anyway

solution

rm the wrappers inside language/js/bin create tool to create a graal compatible wrapper

original wrapper

graalvm-ce-java15-20.3.0/languages/js/bin/npx-graal
#!/usr/bin/env bash

source="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$source" ] ; do
    prev_source="$source"
    source="$(readlink "$source")";
    if [[ "$source" != /* ]]; then
        # if the link was relative, it was relative to where it came from
        dir="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$prev_source" )" && pwd )"
        source="$dir/$source"
    fi
done
bin_dir="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$source" )" && pwd )"
parent_bin_dir="$( dirname "$bin_dir" )"

NODE_ARGS=()
PROGRAM_ARGS=()

NODE_DIR="--nodedir=${parent_bin_dir}"

for opt in "${@:1}"; do
    case "${opt}" in
        --nodedir=*)
            NODE_DIR="${opt}" ;;
        --vm*)
            NODE_ARGS+=("${opt}") ;;
        --jvm*)
            NODE_ARGS+=("${opt}") ;;
        --native*)
            NODE_ARGS+=("${opt}") ;;
        *)
            PROGRAM_ARGS+=("${opt}") ;;
    esac
done

NODE_ARGS+=("--engine.Mode=latency")

PATH="${bin_dir}:$PATH"

if [ "$(uname -s)" == "SunOS" ]; then
    # node packages typically expect to run with gnu tools
    if [ "${GNU_BINDIR}x" == "x" ]; then
        GNU_BINDIR="/usr/gnu/bin"
    fi
    PATH="${GNU_BINDIR}:${PATH}"
    # Use GCC instead of Solaris Studio Compiler
    export CC="gcc"
    export CXX="g++"
    export CFLAGS="-m64 -U__EXTENSIONS__"
    export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
    export LDFLAGS="-m64"
fi
export PATH

exec "${bin_dir}/node" "${NODE_ARGS[@]}" "${parent_bin_dir}/npm/bin/npx-cli.js" "${NODE_DIR}" "${PROGRAM_ARGS[@]}"

since this wrapper needs to get called always when a node cli app gets used we need to apply this wrapper to node in general

graalvm/bin/node graalvm/languages/js/bin/node

most easy npm update

mkdir -p /tmp/npm-upgrade
cd /tmp/npm-upgrade
npm pack npm
tar -xzf npm-*.tgz --strip-components=1 -C $GRAALVM_HOME/languages/js/npm
rm -rf npm-*.tgz

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NODE_ARGS+=" --engine.Mode=latency"