diff --git a/src/audit.ts b/src/audit.ts
index dc77611..c03ea63 100644
--- a/src/audit.ts
+++ b/src/audit.ts
@@ -12,40 +12,36 @@ export class Audit {
     productionFlag: string,
     jsonFlag: string
   ): void {
-    try {
-      const auditOptions: Array<string> = ['audit', '--audit-level', auditLevel]
+    const auditOptions: string[] = ['audit', '--audit-level', auditLevel]
 
-      const isWindowsEnvironment: boolean = process.platform == 'win32'
-      const cmd: string = isWindowsEnvironment ? 'npm.cmd' : 'npm'
+    const isWindowsEnvironment: boolean = process.platform === 'win32'
+    const cmd: string = isWindowsEnvironment ? 'npm.cmd' : 'npm'
 
-      if (productionFlag === 'true') {
-        auditOptions.push('--omit=dev')
-      }
-
-      if (jsonFlag === 'true') {
-        auditOptions.push('--json')
-      }
-
-      const result: SpawnSyncReturns<string> = spawnSync(cmd, auditOptions, {
-        encoding: 'utf-8',
-        maxBuffer: SPAWN_PROCESS_BUFFER_SIZE
-      })
-
-      if (result.error) {
-        throw result.error
-      }
-      if (result.status === null) {
-        throw new Error('the subprocess terminated due to a signal.')
-      }
-      if (result.stderr && result.stderr.length > 0) {
-        throw new Error(result.stderr)
-      }
-
-      this.status = result.status
-      this.stdout = result.stdout
-    } catch (error) {
-      throw error
+    if (productionFlag === 'true') {
+      auditOptions.push('--omit=dev')
     }
+
+    if (jsonFlag === 'true') {
+      auditOptions.push('--json')
+    }
+
+    const result: SpawnSyncReturns<string> = spawnSync(cmd, auditOptions, {
+      encoding: 'utf-8',
+      maxBuffer: SPAWN_PROCESS_BUFFER_SIZE
+    })
+
+    if (result.error) {
+      throw result.error
+    }
+    if (result.status === null) {
+      throw new Error('the subprocess terminated due to a signal.')
+    }
+    if (result.stderr?.length > 0) {
+      throw new Error(result.stderr)
+    }
+
+    this.status = result.status
+    this.stdout = result.stdout
   }
 
   public foundVulnerability(): boolean {
diff --git a/src/issue.ts b/src/issue.ts
index 598441d..d3e05a0 100644
--- a/src/issue.ts
+++ b/src/issue.ts
@@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ export async function getExistingIssueNumber(
     .filter(i => i.title === core.getInput('issue_title'))
     .shift()
 
-  return iss === undefined ? null : iss.number
+  return iss?.number ?? null
 }
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index 2cd14fe..c766f90 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -114,9 +114,7 @@ export async function run(): Promise<void> {
       }
     }
   } catch (e: unknown) {
-    if (e instanceof Error) {
-      core.setFailed(e.message)
-    }
+    core.setFailed((e as Error)?.message ?? 'Unknown error occurred')
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/pr.ts b/src/pr.ts
index 772a7bc..05a5a8f 100644
--- a/src/pr.ts
+++ b/src/pr.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ export async function createComment(
   prNumber: number,
   body: string
 ): Promise<void> {
-  octokit.issues.createComment({
+  await octokit.issues.createComment({
     owner,
     repo,
     issue_number: prNumber,
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 5a19263..52ffdbe 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "target": "es6",                          /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', 'ES2018', 'ES2019' or 'ESNEXT'. */
-    "module": "NodeNext",                     /* Specify module code generation: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', or 'ESNext'. */
-    "outDir": "./lib",                        /* Redirect output structure to the directory. */
-    "rootDir": "./src",                       /* Specify the root directory of input files. Use to control the output directory structure with --outDir. */
-    "strict": true,                           /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */
-    "noImplicitAny": true,                    /* Raise error on expressions and declarations with an implied 'any' type. */
-    "esModuleInterop": true                   /* Enables emit interoperability between CommonJS and ES Modules via creation of namespace objects for all imports. Implies 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'. */
+    "target": "es2020", /* Specify ECMAScript target version: 'ES3' (default), 'ES5', 'ES2015', 'ES2016', 'ES2017', 'ES2018', 'ES2019', 'ES2020' or 'ESNEXT'. */
+    "module": "NodeNext", /* Specify module code generation: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es2015', or 'ESNext'. */
+    "outDir": "./lib", /* Redirect output structure to the directory. */
+    "rootDir": "./src", /* Specify the root directory of input files. Use to control the output directory structure with --outDir. */
+    "strict": true, /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */
+    "noImplicitAny": true, /* Raise error on expressions and declarations with an implied 'any' type. */
+    "esModuleInterop": true /* Enables emit interoperability between CommonJS and ES Modules via creation of namespace objects for all imports. Implies 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'. */
   },
-  "exclude": ["node_modules", "**/*.test.ts", "vitest.config.ts"]
+  "exclude": [
+    "node_modules",
+    "**/*.test.ts",
+    "vitest.config.ts"
+  ]
 }