Node.js web service fails deploy because node modules are not installed

It seems the deployment of my production app (with a pro instance) does not successfully complete the npm ci command, according to the following error logs :

[2022-02-09 15:17:46] => Building app
[2022-02-09 15:17:46] 
[2022-02-09 15:17:46] ---> Node.js Buildpack
[2022-02-09 15:17:46] ---> Installing toolbox
[2022-02-09 15:17:46] ---> - jq
[2022-02-09 15:17:47] ---> - yj
[2022-02-09 15:17:47] ---> Getting Node version
[2022-02-09 15:17:47] ---> Resolving Node version
[2022-02-09 15:17:50] ---> Downloading and extracting Node v16.13.2
[2022-02-09 15:18:05] ---> Parsing package.json
[2022-02-09 15:18:06] ---> No file to start server
[2022-02-09 15:18:06] ---> either use 'docker run' to start container or add index.js or server.js
[2022-02-09 15:18:06] Project contains package-lock.json, using npm
[2022-02-09 15:18:06] Using npm v8.1.2. To configure a different version of npm, set the engines.npm property in package.json.
[2022-02-09 15:18:06]   See https://do.co/apps-buildpack-node for further instructions.
[2022-02-09 15:18:06] Installing node_modules using npm (from package-lock.json)
[2022-02-09 15:18:07] Running npm ci
[2022-02-09 15:18:07] 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] > nesspay-backend@0.1.0 postinstall
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] > patch-package
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] sh: 1: patch-package: not found
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm notice 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm notice New minor version of npm available! 8.1.2 -> 8.4.1
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm notice Changelog: <https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.4.1>
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm notice Run `npm install -g npm@8.4.1` to update!
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm notice 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm ERR! code 127
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm ERR! path /workspace
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm ERR! command failed
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm ERR! command sh -c patch-package
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] npm ERR!     /home/apps/.npm/_logs/2022-02-09T15_18_35_748Z-debug.log
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] 
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] unable to invoke layer creator
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] installing node_modules: exit status 127
[2022-02-09 15:18:35] ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1

It is super weird as I have the exact same configuration except for the type of database and instance size for a testing environment, which does not have this install node modules issue.