How do I setup my local environment such that import { OpenAI } from "openai" succeeds

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It turns out that my issue was confusion resulting from exposure to too many new things at once: scrims, node.js, vscode, and vite (and, of course, AI itself). Although the issue arose in the context of the AI Engineer Path course it is more properly a general issue. For anyone arriving here and being similarly confused, have a look at:

How do I run a scrim on my local machine

I want to be able to run the scrims that I zip and download to my local machine. I have always used MAMP to run my websites locally. However, this does not work for the scrims. For instance, with the scrim from The AI Engineer Path → Open-Source Models → Text To Speech With HuggingFace.js Inference the browser logs the error “TypeError: Module name, ‘@huggingface/inference’ does not resolve to a valid URL.”. This is due to the line “import { HfInference } from ‘@huggingface/inference’” in the…