Remove npm from package engines

[manzoorwanijk]

What?

Removes npm from the engines field of every workspace package, keeping node.

Why?

engines.npm only constrains consumers who install with npm; pnpm and Yarn ignore it, so it says nothing about package manager compatibility. The values (>=8.19.2, >=10.2.3) are just the npm bundled with the declared Node minimum, so they add no information and can only produce spurious EBADENGINE warnings or engine-strict failures. Contributor tooling is already pinned at the root via engines and devEngines, which stay unchanged.

How?

• Dropped engines.npm from packages/*/package.json and tools/pr-meta/package.json.
• Updated the matching workspace entries in package-lock.json.
• Updated the example package.json in packages/README.md.

Testing Instructions

1. npm ci completes without lockfile changes.
2. npm run lint:pkg-json passes.
3. git grep '"npm": ">=' -- 'packages/*/package.json' returns nothing.

Use of AI Tools

Changes were made with Claude Code and reviewed by me.

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🤖 PR meta 🤖

📦 Bundle size

Size Change: 0 B

Total Size: 8.21 MB

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⚡ Performance

Show the results

Client side metrics exclude the server response time.

front-end-block-theme

Metric	ec98b27	trunk	% Change
timeToFirstByte	56.25 ms +4.09% -4.18%	54.95 ms +7.28% -2.46%	2.37%
largestContentfulPaint	92 ms +6.52% -4.35%	90 ms +8.89% -2.22%	2.22%
lcpMinusTtfb	34.65 ms +16.59% -1.3%	34.1 ms +19.35% -4.25%	1.61%
wpBeforeTemplate	26.96 ms +9.01% -1.52%	26.87 ms +12.58% -0.82%	0.33%
wpTemplate	23.92 ms +8.7% -2.59%	23.82 ms +3.95% -1.68%	0.42%
wpTotal	52.29 ms +3.69% -4.3%	51.01 ms +7.82% -2.41%	2.51%
wpMemoryUsage	7.59 MB +0% -0%	7.56 MB +0% -0%	0.38%
wpDbQueries	17 +0% -0%	17 +0% -0%	0%

front-end-classic-theme

Metric	ec98b27	trunk	% Change
timeToFirstByte	44.65 ms +7.73% -1.23%	44.7 ms +8.61% -2.24%	-0.11%
largestContentfulPaint	100 ms +4% -2%	100 ms +4% -4%	0%
lcpMinusTtfb	55.35 ms +3.43% -3.97%	54.65 ms +2.1% -3.93%	1.28%
wpBeforeTemplate	23.63 ms +2.62% -1.02%	23.64 ms +10.41% -1.4%	-0.04%
wpTemplate	17.76 ms +5.63% -2.2%	17.9 ms +2.74% -3.02%	-0.78%
wpTotal	41.37 ms +7.71% -0.92%	41.6 ms +9.04% -2.31%	-0.55%
wpMemoryUsage	6.20 MB +0% -0%	6.17 MB +0% -0%	0.48%
wpDbQueries	14 +0% -0%	14 +0% -0%	0%

media-processing

Metric	ec98b27	trunk	% Change
mediaProcessingJpeg	413.89 ms +6.1% -1.19%	410.91 ms +1.78% -0.81%	0.73%
mediaProcessingAvif	6180.72 ms +0.28% -0.04%	6200.71 ms +0.23% -0.16%	-0.32%
mediaProcessingJpegToAvif	4308.8 ms +0.34% -0.19%	4325.75 ms +0.47% -0.13%	-0.39%

media-upload

Metric	ec98b27	trunk	% Change
jpegUploadProcessing	1434.96 ms +4.47% -1.41%	1414.29 ms +0.67% -0.74%	1.46%
pngUploadProcessing	216.53 ms +6.61% -5.07%	210.62 ms +4.11% -4.52%	2.81%
largeJpegUploadProcessing	1413.82 ms +0.56% -0.27%	1416.87 ms +0.66% -0.79%	-0.22%
multipleImageUploadProcessing	1607.86 ms +0.28% -2.46%	1544.78 ms +0.45% -0.98%	4.08%

post-editor

Metric	ec98b27	trunk	% Change
serverResponse	327.13 ms +1.54% -8.96%	332.07 ms +4.36% -9.42%	-1.49%
firstPaint	177.16 ms +17.67% -10.45%	196.43 ms +16.52% -21.24%	-9.81%
domContentLoaded	839.67 ms +0.7% -0.81%	834.52 ms +0.36% -0.47%	0.62%
loaded	840.73 ms +0.7% -0.8%	835.61 ms +0.4% -0.47%	0.61%
firstContentfulPaint	353.68 ms +2.01% -0.46%	345.36 ms +1.15% -2.39%	2.41%
firstBlock	2449.07 ms +0.76% -1.35%	2454.05 ms +1.15% -0.86%	-0.2%
type	17.37 ms +2.76% -10.42%	17.38 ms +5.64% -4.09%	-0.06%
typeWithoutInspector	17.12 ms +6.07% -1.11%	16.96 ms +2.71% -3.54%	0.94%
typeWithTopToolbar	21.51 ms +5.25% -3.35%	20.97 ms +4.96% -1.86%	2.58%
typeContainer	7.65 ms +6.54% -3.79%	7.1 ms +13.24% -6.34%	7.75%
focus	57.96 ms +4.81% -3.85%	56.41 ms +7.98% -4.68%	2.75%
firstFocus	175.76 ms +0% -0%	151.11 ms +0% -0%	16.31%
selectAll	386.27 ms +2.62% -3.34%	420.61 ms +0.83% -6.64%	-8.16%
listViewOpen	52.99 ms +8.25% -4.68%	55.3 ms +5.1% -12.53%	-4.18%
inserterOpen	19.15 ms +7.05% -8.09%	20.18 ms +7.73% -9.46%	-5.1%
inserterHover	2.57 ms +6.23% -5.06%	2.8 ms +10% -8.57%	-8.21%
inserterSearch	6.49 ms +7.4% -6.16%	6.98 ms +5.01% -6.02%	-7.02%
loadPatterns	508.63 ms +0.66% -2.26%	544.54 ms +4% -2.08%	-6.59%
wpTotal	318.4 ms +1.49% -9.25%	322.66 ms +4.62% -9.44%	-1.32%
wpMemoryUsage	13.13 MB +0% -0%	13.10 MB +0% -0%	0.23%
wpDbQueries	54 +0% -0%	54 +0% -0%	0%

site-editor

Metric	ec98b27	trunk	% Change
serverResponse	392.52 ms +5.3% -6.28%	401.45 ms +3.92% -2.47%	-2.22%
firstPaint	248.15 ms +10.99% -10.69%	238.01 ms +19.18% -10.56%	4.26%
domContentLoaded	1117.73 ms +0.86% -1.52%	1114.54 ms +1.05% -1.85%	0.29%
loaded	1118.82 ms +0.87% -1.51%	1115.82 ms +1.03% -1.86%	0.27%
firstContentfulPaint	442.13 ms +3.54% -2.62%	445.61 ms +1.73% -2.21%	-0.78%
firstBlock	3956.08 ms +0.12% -0.39%	3911.68 ms +0.52% -0.52%	1.14%
type	20.77 ms +2.99% -2.41%	21.28 ms +1.83% -6.02%	-2.4%
navigate	125.5 ms +6.72% -9.27%	119.95 ms +13.81% -2.68%	4.63%
loadPatterns	1303.74 ms +26.94% -3.5%	1393.79 ms +13.12% -13.63%	-6.46%
loadPages	1093.89 ms +2.02% -0.91%	1125.19 ms +0.48% -2.44%	-2.78%
wpTotal	381.58 ms +5.41% -6.47%	390.43 ms +4.03% -2.5%	-2.27%
wpMemoryUsage	12.10 MB +0% -0%	12.06 MB +0% -0%	0.36%
wpDbQueries	43.5 +1.15% -1.15%	43 +2.33% -0%	1.16%

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[tyxla]

Nice cleanup, thanks!

I think there's a bug we need to fix with check-engines.

See inline comments for a few other minor things

[tyxla]

LGTM from my perspective.

Left a couple of minor things for your consideration before 🚢