npm: move from user-specific .npm configuration to project-specific

Our current npm configuration is set up using the user account, so all files are being stored in ~/.npm and it seems to be using ~/.npmrc

We would like to change this configuration so that these files are sitting in the root folder of our Laravel project and thus to make it a project-specific configuration, not dependent upon any linux user, and hopefully more portable too.

I've tried to move the files and I've read this doc but I admit it is rather too complex for a newcomer to npm.

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