NPM version issue

[cnlucas]

What we’re after

We use sudo npm install -g npm in our CMS circle config.yml file and it seems to work correctly by installing globally the NPM version that is paired by NVM with the node version we have selected. For API, we seem to be pulling in the latest NPM version. This may break our builds when they release a new NPM version and we are still on an older version. (this happened with the release of 10)

We should figure out a way to make this consistent across repos---and pull in the paired NPM version in API instead of the most recent version.

Action item(s)

(These are the smaller tasks that should happen in order to complete this work)

• Research how our circle NPM version is being determined
• Confirm this issue described above
• Implement a fix

Completion criteria

• NPM is being pulled in correctly in circle for API

References/resources/technical considerations

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