Required Node [email protected] throws a TypeError on MacOS 15.1 when running from source (with a sloppy fix)

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Following the steps from the section "Running from source" calling npm start aborts with an error:

> [email protected] start
> node src/server.js

/Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:1217
    } else if (Utils.isRegExp(parent)) {
                     ^

TypeError: Utils.isRegExp is not a function
    at _clone (/Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:1217:22)
    at Config.cloneDeep (/Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:1255:10)
    at /Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:1515:32
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at util.extendDeep (/Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:1492:9)
    at /Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:727:14
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at /Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:721:14
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at util.loadFileConfigs (/Users/user/projects/translation-server/node_modules/config/lib/config.js:720:13)

If I manually edit the offending node_modules/config/lib/config.js thus:

From

    if (Utils.isArray(parent)) {
      child = [];
    } else if (Utils.isRegExp(parent)) {
      child = new RegExp(parent.source, util.getRegExpFlags(parent));
      if (parent.lastIndex) child.lastIndex = parent.lastIndex;
    } else if (Utils.isDate(parent)) {

To

    if (Utils.types.isArray(parent)) {
[...]
    } else if (Utils.types.isDate(parent)) {

Everything seems to work fine. I think this is probably a bug in config or something, but I'm not very knowledgeable about how to work with npm packages. Could updating the version of config required fix the problem?

uname -v: Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:05:23 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6031

npm -v: 10.9.0

node -v v23.1.0