EDIT: Forgot to mention that I had this issue both with MacOS Sequoia and MacOS Tahoe, if that helps at all.

I have a 2020 4-thunderbolt-port MacBook Pro and I'm trying to get 11ty/Node.js running on it so I can continue to inch away from windows. When I try to run any of the "npm run (x)" commands, I get the issue below. I'm trying to search for solutions, but keep hitting walls. Can someone smarter than me help me figure this out?

[11ty] Problem writing Eleventy templates: 
[11ty] 1. Having trouble parsing data file ./src/_data/._config.jsonc (via TemplateDataParseError) 
[11ty] 2. Unexpected token '', "Ma"... is not valid JSON while parsing 'Mac OS X            2�' (via JSONError)

It's a completely fresh install of 11ty, Node.js, and Strawberry Starter, yes

Hey y'all! Just wanted to post a quick update that it seems like there was an update between my original post and now that fixed whatever was causing NPM to not work properly (I'm on MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1a)! It takes a while for it to get everything going, but it works, and that's what's most important!

EDIT: NPM commands install, run dev, and run build work! Trying to update NPM via the terminal doesn't work because of how MacOS handles permissions (it's very weird)