How to delay Alpine init?

[Lomacar]

I want to run a bunch of preparatory code before Alpine does it's thing. The preparation involves async stuff. So how can/should I delay Alpine init until everything is ready? I know there is Alpine.start() but I suppose running that more than once could cause unpredictable behaviour. (I am trying to create a standalone library that "plays nice" with Alpine.) Do I have to use modules?

UPDATE:
OK, apparently what I thought was happening wasn't happening and I stumbled into a solution without needing this question answered. But maybe I will leave it here out of curiosity.

[SimoTod]

the npm version doesn't autostart so you would manually call Alpine.start() whenever you are ready. (https://alpinejs.dev/essentials/installation#as-a-module)
You can't delay the CDN version any further than deferring the script

[Lomacar]

OK, thanks.