Make npm work in tails

The latest tails comes with nodejs v10.24.0. Trying to get tails to run a newer node has been unsuccessful even after running script from deb.nodesource.com/setup_14x which said buster was unsupported. I think updating node was a red herring anyway. npm is not included so I use

apt install npm

to install npm. I get version 5.8.0. I need npm to install create-react-app and other node tools. All npm commands return warning Npm does not support node.js v10.24.0 (hence the red herring to update that) In persistant storage I create a directory "foo" and cd to foo, I run

init

And then

install

And in addition to the warning above it seems to fail to connect to registry.npmjs.org:443 with getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN Putting that url into the tor browser connects just fine. My current working theory is that I need to configure npm proxy and npm https-proxy, but for that I seem to require proxy credentials, url, and port. I don't know what those are or how to find them in tails. I am not behind any other proxy besides tor running in Tails. Question: how to make npm work in tails.