`make build` requires an interactive response

[tomjelinek]

Running make build may occasionally end up with a request for interactive response like this:

 Need to install the following packages:
   npm
 Ok to proceed? (y)

It comes from npx npm ci.
The problem is, that whenever make build is run from a script (or an Ansible playbook), the script gets stuck as npx is waiting for a response forever. Is there perhaps a npx parameter that would make it assume yes?