The same project needs to behave consistently on developer machines, in CI and after deployment. Which versions, dependencies and configuration should be recorded?

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Pin a supported Node.js release and package-manager version, commit the lockfile and use deterministic installation in CI. Build artifacts for the target platform when native modules are involved. Keep development and production installation behavior explicit rather than relying on global packages.

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