doctl -v serverless deploy results in "Error: unexpected end of JSON"

Hi, the question kind of tells the whole story. When trying to run a serverless deploy, I’m getting constant errors I can’t explain. I’ve reverted back to previous code version where it has deployed successfully so I don’t think it’s related to the actual code or project.yaml. When I try to use watch to auto-deploy, I see the following error throw:

 % doctl -v serverless watch .
Watching '.' [use Control-C to terminate]

Deploying '.' due to change in 'packages/x/y/index.js'
Started running npm install --production in xxxxxxxxx
Started running npm install --production in xxxxxxxxx
Started running npm install --production in xxxxxxxxx
Started running npm install --production in xxxxxxxxx
Started running npm install --production in yyyyyyyyy
node:events:368
node:events:368
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: read ECONNRESET
    at TLSWrap.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:220:20)
Emitted 'error' event on ClientRequest instance at:
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:447:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:157:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:122:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
  errno: -54,
  code: 'ECONNRESET',
  syscall: 'read'
}
Error: exit status 1