Alternative solutions

This is not the only solution. You might also want to look at

Cronn Pnpm plugin - A Gradle plugin that provisions pnpm and integrates a pnpm workspace into a Gradle build.
Craig Burke’s Client Dependencies plugin: Install client side dependencies from NPM or Bower by declaring dependencies in build.gradle].
Jef Stano’s NPM plugin - Generic npm/Node build lifecycle support for use within MSP.
Moowork’s Node plugin: Gradle plugin for executing node scripts (supports NPM, Yarn, Grunt and Gulp).
Palantir NPM plugin - A Gradle Plugin to create lifecycle tasks that trigger npm run commands.
Takuya Kuwahara’s Yarn plugin.