npm-package not found when deployed to production (Rails)

[t3k4y]

Hello there,

we migrated our Rails-App to vitejs and everything seems to work nice in development.

Deploying it to production, it's yielding the following error:
Uncaught TypeError: Failed to resolve module specifier "@hotwired/stimulus". Relative references must start with either "/", "./", or "../".

Looking at the precompiled source it seems that the path to node_modules is not beeing inserted:
/vite/assets/application-fxJWKlir.js

import"./application-vJJ2Zb4R.js";import"@hotwired/stimulus";

Do i have to add node_modules to vite config?
In https://vite-ruby.netlify.app/guide/deployment.html#disabling-node-modules-installation-in-assets-precompile it says that node_modules will be auto-installed by assets:precompile..

package.json

{
  "name": "app",
  "private": true,
  "type": "module",
  "dependencies": {
    "@hotwired/stimulus": "^3.2.2",
    "@hotwired/turbo-rails": "^8.0.16",
    "@rails/request.js": "^0.0.12",
    "@stimulus-components/dialog": "^1.0.1",
    "jquery": "^3.3.1",
    "stimulus-vite-helpers": "^3.1.0",
    "vite-plugin-rails": "^0.5.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "sass-embedded": "^1.89.2",
    "vite": "^5.4.19",
    "vite-plugin-resolve": "^2.5.2"
  }
}

Thank you for any hint!

Best wishes, T.