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The .npmrc file fixes permission issues for the NPM sharp package and other packages which require elevated permissions, setting the 'unsafe-perm' flag to true. Several packages are included in the package.json file which are not being used in this project to demonstrate the deployment works for image upload/resizing packages.

Running this code locally requires that you add a .env file at the root of your project with a DB environment variable pointing to your local MongoDB instance. Example: DB=mongodb://localhost:27017/restful?retryWrites=true