"Couldn't find node" although node is present

[nmeierling]

While trying to boost our ci builds, it came to my attention that the vaadin-maven-plugin is downloading node in every build, although it is present in the image used for the build.

The output is:

[INFO] --- vaadin-maven-plugin:23.1.2:prepare-frontend (frontend) @ project ---
[INFO] Couldn't find node. Installing Node and npm to /root/.vaadin.
[INFO] Installing node version v16.15.0

Since I am not that familiar with maven plugins in general, I could not find the place to look for this version lookup. Could you help me investigate this issue?