Any specific version of npm to use?

[shantanuSakpal]

Hello, I am using the latest npm version (10.2.5) , and after running npm install , the package-lock is modified, because The package-lock.json file was created with an old version of npm, and as mentioned in the lockfileVersion, it was a 5x npm version. the latest of the 5x versions was 5.10.0.
so is it fine to use latest npm version, cause if not,then i will also have to downgrade node, cause npm 5.x is not compatible with latest node version (20.x)
@pikurasa

[walterbender]

Should be fine AFAIK

[walterbender]

Hmm. We should investigate why recent npm releases don't work.

[khadar1020]

Hi sir,
npm 5. x is not fully compatible with the latest Node.js version (20. x). There have been some cases where users faced issues, sir. I have read this somewhere I was not able to remember I have also faced same issues at the start I used nvm to overcome this sir @walterbender

Thank you