Hugo babel output empty

Thanks, it would appear I don’t have a module installed, despite my attempts to install it!

[hendry@t480s hugo-react]$ npm install -g babel-preset-env
npm WARN deprecated core-js@2.6.11: core-js@<3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of issues. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js@3.
+ babel-preset-env@1.7.0
updated 1 package in 1.789s
[hendry@t480s hugo-react]$ hugo serve
Building sites … WARN 2020/08/19 15:13:45 found no layout file for "HTML" for kind "taxonomy": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
WARN 2020/08/19 15:13:45 found no layout file for "HTML" for kind "taxonomy": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
Error: Cannot find module 'babel-preset-env' from '/home/hendry/tmp'
    at Function.resolveSync [as sync] (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/node_modules/resolve/lib/sync.js:89:15)
    at resolveStandardizedName (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/plugins.js:101:31)
    at resolvePreset (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/plugins.js:58:10)
    at loadPreset (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/plugins.js:77:20)
    at createDescriptor (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/config-descriptors.js:154:9)
    at /home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/config-descriptors.js:109:50
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at createDescriptors (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/config-descriptors.js:109:29)
    at createPresetDescriptors (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/config-descriptors.js:101:10)
    at presets (/home/hendry/.node_modules/lib/node_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/config-descriptors.js:47:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}
ERROR 2020/08/19 15:13:45 BABEL: failed to transform "scripts/main.js" (application/javascript): exit status 1
Built in 95 ms
Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "home" failed: "/home/hendry/tmp/hugo-react/layouts/index.html:7:15": execute of template failed: template: index.html:7:15: executing "index.html" at <$transpiled.Content>: error calling Content: BABEL: failed to transform "scripts/main.js" (application/javascript): exit status 1

Mysteries of the JS tool chain I was hoping to avoid. Haha…