Unable to start vite-typescript template - Getting Started Guide incomplete/insufficient ?

[HedgeWizardly]

Operating System:
Mac OS Ventura 13.7.3 (22H417)

I'm trying to start a new project from template, following instructions on https://www.electronforge.io/

1. Open terminal
2. cd to a directory (e.g. cd documents > cd code)
3. npx create-electron-app@latest myprojectname --template=vite-typescript
4. cd myprojectname
5. code .
6. In VS Code, open integrated terminal
7. npm install
8. npm run make

RESULT: sh: electron-forge: command not found

I try:

1. npm install electron-forge -D
2. npm run make

RESULT:

✔ Checking your system
✖ Resolving Forge Config

Electron forge was terminated:
You must depend on "electron-prebuilt-compile" in your devDependencies

At this point, my package looks like this:

{
  "name": "koboldtracker",
  "productName": "koboldtracker",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "My Electron application description",
  "main": ".vite/build/main.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron-forge start",
    "package": "electron-forge package",
    "make": "electron-forge make",
    "publish": "electron-forge publish",
    "lint": "eslint --ext .ts,.tsx ."
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": {
    "name": "HedgeWizardly",
    "email": "46279228+HedgeWizardly@users.noreply.github.com"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@electron-forge/plugin-vite": "^7.8.1",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^5.62.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^5.62.0",
    "electron-forge": "^5.2.4",
    "eslint": "^8.57.1",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.32.0",
    "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
    "typescript": "~4.5.4",
    "vite": "^5.4.19"
  }
}

Following the advice in electron/forge#2024 (comment) I tried npm uninstall -g electron-forge followed again by npm run make and hit the same issue.

Next I tried npm install electron-prebuilt-compile -D which adds "electron-prebuilt-compile": "^8.2.0", to my package file.

npm run make yields:

✖ Resolving Forge Config

Electron forge was terminated:
You must depend on an EXACT version of "electron-prebuilt-compile" not a range (got "^8.2.0")```

I remove the `^` from the package definition and re-run `npm install` and try `npm run make` again afterwards. This yields:

```✔ Checking your system
✖ Resolving Forge Config

Electron forge was terminated:
You must depend on "electron-prebuilt-compile" in your devDependencies```

Please help..! I'm only a hobbyist programmer so I might be missing something potentially obvious, but to have already hit so many barriers just trying to follow the getting started guide must be a hindrance to other people too, unless it's something SPECIFICALLY off with my system..?