Installing Laravel and node?

Question

phpstorm

After installing Laravel in a storm, a window constantly appears suggesting that you run npm install in the Laravel installation. Do I need to run npm install, what does it affect? What will be installed and why?

Answer 1

Do I need to run npm install, what does it affect?

Don't know what it is? So you don't need it. When you find out what it is, you decide to run it yourself or not.

What will be installed and why?

The dependencies for the frontend will be installed. Essentially like composer install only in JS