I thought they were the same, at least I thought so. With it being called node as a folder name in the file explorer, with node_modules it’s part in the directory path, with this screenshot as evidence.
the node folder you found is inside the node_modules folder, see there is the path? it says C:\\Users\User\my-react-app\node_modules\vite\dist, it means it’s inside the dist folder that is inside the vite folder that is inside the node_modules folder
Thankyou for this information, read it at understand it a long time ago but had not decided how to respond. I happy to considered this thread completed if you(@ILM)/ others agree. I do not feel there is a post I can point to as the solution as We/I (not sure of the correct language) processed to a solution over multiple steps.