$ cdk init -l typescript
Applying project template app for typescript
# Welcome to your CDK TypeScript project

This is a blank project for CDK development with TypeScript.

The `cdk.json` file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

## Useful commands

* `npm run build`   compile typescript to js
* `npm run watch`   watch for changes and compile
* `npm run test`    perform the jest unit tests
* `cdk deploy`      deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
* `cdk diff`        compare deployed stack with current state
* `cdk synth`       emits the synthesized CloudFormation template

Executing npm install...
✅ All done!

$ cdk init app --language typescript
Applying project template app for typescript
Unable to create glove80-firmware-pipeline: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates/app/tmp-myapp'
Executing npm install...
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /path/to/myapp/package.json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/path/to/myapp/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/me/.npm/_logs/2022-09-17T09_26_32_543Z-debug-0.log
npm install failed: npm exited with status 254
✅ All done!

$ cdk init app --language typescript