diff --git a/webapps/hedgedoc/defaults/main.yml b/webapps/hedgedoc/defaults/main.yml
index cff858b3..c9fe250b 100644
--- a/webapps/hedgedoc/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/webapps/hedgedoc/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
 # defaults file for mastodon
-system_dep: "['apt-transport-https', 'postgresql', 'python3-psycopg2', 'nginx', 'git', 'wget', 'certbot']"
+system_dep: "['apt-transport-https', 'postgresql', 'python3-psycopg2', 'nginx', 'git', 'wget', 'certbot', 'npm']"
 git_url: 'https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc.git'
 git_version: '1.9.7'
-node_version: 'node_16.x' # Node 18 is NOT supported as of May 2023; See https://docs.hedgedoc.org/setup/manual-setup/
+node_version: 'node_18.x' # Node 18 is NOT supported as of May 2023; See https://docs.hedgedoc.org/setup/manual-setup/
 node_port: '3000'
 service: 'example'
 domains: ['example.domain.org']
diff --git a/webapps/hedgedoc/tasks/main.yml b/webapps/hedgedoc/tasks/main.yml
index cf2a9864..80e3cd2c 100644
--- a/webapps/hedgedoc/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/webapps/hedgedoc/tasks/main.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,16 @@
     update_cache: yes
 
 - name: Install node-gyp from npm
-  shell: npm install --global node-gyp
+  shell: npm install --global node-gyp corepack
 
 - name: Enable yarn (via corepack)
-  shell: "corepack enable; yarn set version classic"
+  shell: "corepack enable"
+
+- name: Fix permissions 
+  file:
+    path: /usr/local/lib/node_modules
+    mode: g+rx,o+rx
+    recurse: yes
 
 - name: Add UNIX account
   user: