Many of them may not be Node developers either, and might not have npm installed. Using a dependency management tool for one language to distribute a packaged

Many of them may not be Node developers either, and might not have npm installed. Using a dependency management tool for one language to distribute a packaged application written in an entirely different language seems like a very strange choice. Why not use the various standard and commonplace packaging and distribution methods for application software? Distro repos, tarballs, Homebrew, AppImage, Flatpak, etc.