Anyone having this issue, and have tried all of the above and doesn't work, I did the following:

1. Watch and follow this tutorial to completely remove/uninstall node and npm
2. Reinstall node. Reference the official Node website

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

nvm install 20

node -v

npm -v

3. Restart your terminal and code editor