npx scripts fail

[AaronFeledy]

On a basic node:20 service, npx scripts won't run.

$ lando npx cowsay "Hello World"
npm error code ENOENT
npm error syscall lstat
npm error path /var/www/.npm-global
npm error errno -2
npm error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/var/www/.npm-global'
npm error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm error enoent
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/node/.npm/_logs/2025-03-05T18_25_08_720Z-debug-0.log

This is because npx tries to open .npm-global which doesn't exist in the container, and there is no error handling for that situation so it crashes.

Normally installing npx or any other global package would create that directory and there would be no issue, but since we're using the npx that comes with the container, that directory doesn't exist on a fresh image.