Visual Studio unable to find npm and fails change of target system to dev container

I'm getting the following error when I try to open a dev container in VS 2022:

Failed to change target system to '[Dev Container]': Unable to find 'npm'. Please install it and try again.

This is the .devcontainer/devcontainer.json file:

{
  "name": "CPP dev container",
  "image": "link_to_image",
  "customizations": {
    "vscode": {
      "extensions": [
        "ms-vscode.cmake-tools",
        "llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd",
        "twxs.cmake",
        "xaver.clang-format",
        "ms-vscode.cpptools"
      ]
    }
  }
}

It works all fine in VS Code, but I also want it to work with Visual Studio.

These are the versions I'm using:

• Docker version 27.2.1-rd, build cc0ee3e
• Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) - Preview, Version 17.13.0 Preview 2.0

I tried to include npm in the image and to make sure npm is installed on my Windows 11 laptop as well. The image is based on the Debian distro.

This happened to me when using docker from WSL, you need to install npm to the WSL machine