`npm install` fails for pristine Angular starter project

[jaredasutton]

Describe the bug

npm install fails for pristine Angular starter projects immediately after creation.

Link to the blitz that caused the error

https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-tn9eqwx2?description=An%20angular-cli%20project%20based%20on%20@angular/animations,%20@angular/common,%20@angular/compiler,%20@angular/core,%20@angular/forms,%20@angular/platform-browser,%20@angular/platform-browser-dynamic,%20@angular/router,%20core-js,%20rxjs,%20tslib%20and%20zone.js&file=package.json&template=node&title=Angular%20Starter

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to the StackBlitz "Dashboard" view.
2. Select the "Angular - TypeScript" starter project.
3. Observe npm install && npm start running in the initialized terminal.
4. Observe the command output: npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/.npm/_logs/...

Expected behavior

The starter project's initial setup commands should succeed.

Parity with Local

• I have run the project in my local machine and I could not reproduce the issue.

Screenshots

Screen.Recording.2026-06-12.at.07.38.40.mov

Platform

Browser name  = Safari
Full version  = 26.3.1
Major version = 26
navigator.appName = Netscape
navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.3.1 Safari/605.1.15
performance.memory = undefined
Hash = 5162ecc8

Additional context

No response

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• stackblitz-starters-tn9eqwx2 (Open reproduction)

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[SamVerschueren]

That's weird, it seems to work fine for me. Can't test your project.