fix(ci): use npm@9.x to avoid failing silently (#508)

Before even if a lerna npm task failed, lerna would still exit with success and so would the CI task. This was because NPM v8 not sending the correct exit code. NPM v9 fixed this so this updates it to that.

Author: gagik

.github/workflows/check-test.yaml

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ on:
 permissions:
   contents: read # we just need to checkout the repo
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
 jobs:
   check-and-test:
@@ -60,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
           cache: "npm"
 
       - name: Install npm
-        run: npm install -g npm@8
+        run: npm install -g npm@9
 
       - name: Use python@3.11
         # Default Python (3.12) doesn't have support for distutils

package-lock.json

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=14.17.5",
-    "npm": ">=7.16.0"
+    "npm": ">=9.0.0"
   },
   "workspaces": [
     "packages/*",