Composer Setup for Mautic 5 Now Needs NPM

So is there any workaround on the following error or there isn’t? I’ve tried installing node v14 to 20 from the official website but still a no go. What really is going on here lol

Script npm ci --prefer-offline --no-audit handling the npm-ci event returned with error code 2
Script @npm-ci was called via post-update-cmd