ts_ls failing to execute when installed from mason

[GregoGaviria]

i recently got a new computer so i copied my neovim .config from the old computer to the new one, but now when i open a html file i get an error message saying that vscode html language server failes to execute

• the neovim config on my new and old devices are carbon copies of each other, but ts_ls only works on my old device
• both devices are running arch linux
• when i initially tried to install vscode-ls it failed because i didn't have npm installed, after installing npm via pacman the installation worked but i could not get it to execute
• none of the logs i checked gave any helpful information
• i tried installing typescript via pacman, but it did not help
• both devices have unmodified PATH settings
• other language servers (gopls) excecute without issue

exact error:
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/lsp/_transport.lua:68: Spawning language server with cmd: { "vscode-html-language-server", "--stdio" } failed. The language
server is either not installed, missing from PATH, or not executable.

any help would be appreciated