NPM with Vaadin 14

Hi

i have installed Vaadin 14 using gradle and i have the latest gradle plugin installed. I used vaadinPrepareNode to get an npm distribution installed, when starting up the application post successful building (via spring boot) it loads up ok but during the load it tries to run an update task and calls npm to run its updates. This fails and the reason seems to be symlink related and it recommends running npm with --no-bin-links.

my question is where can i set this flag so that vaadin adds this to the npm command? I have tried changing all the npm scripts in the node subdirectory in the project but this doesn’t seem to make a difference.