Unintuitive errors when all you need is npm install

[rex-remind101]

I'm new to node/npm. Often I'll get errors about missing dependencies like the following where the solution is "just use npm install". Coming from other ecosystems this has been very disheartening where normally the message of dependencies being out-of-date or missing is short and clearly represented. Please improve the error :)

npm run build

> [email protected] build
> ./esbuild.mjs

✘ [ERROR] No matching export in "node_modules/react-router/dist/index.js" for import "createBrowserRouter"

    app/typescript/bundles/studio/App.tsx:5:8:
      5 │ import {createBrowserRouter, createRoutesFromElements, Route, RouterProvider} from 'react-router'
        ╵         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1651
  let error = new Error(text);
              ^

Error: Build failed with 1 error:
app/typescript/bundles/studio/App.tsx:5:8: ERROR: No matching export in "node_modules/react-router/dist/index.js" for import "createBrowserRouter"
    at failureErrorWithLog (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1651:15)
    at /Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1059:25
    at runOnEndCallbacks (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1486:45)
    at buildResponseToResult (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1057:7)
    at /Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1069:9
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at requestCallbacks.on-end (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:1068:54)
    at handleRequest (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:732:17)
    at handleIncomingPacket (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:757:7)
    at Socket.readFromStdout (/Users/Me/Documents/myrepo/my_repo/node_modules/esbuild/lib/main.js:680:7) {
  errors: [Getter/Setter],
  warnings: [Getter/Setter]
}

Node.js v20.18.1

compare to Rust when importing a dep that's missing:

error[E0432]: unresolved import `missingdep`
 --> crates/repo/my_file.rs:7:5
  |
7 | use missingdep;
  |     ^^^^^^^^^^ no external crate `missingdep`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `repo` (lib) due to 1 previous error
make: *** [build] Error 101

compare to forgetting bundle install in Ruby:

Could not find gem 'ruby-progressbar (>= 1.1.0) ruby' in the gems available on this machine.
Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.