Questions tagged [npm]
npm is the package manager shipped with Node.js. It can be used to install and publish CommonJS and ECMAScript modules, jQuery plugins, reusable JavaScript code (libraries), JavaScript-based CLI programs, and more.
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How to clean node_modules folder of packages that are not in package.json?
Assume I install project packages with npm install that looks into package.json for modules to be installed. After a while I see that I don't need some specific module and remove its dependency from ...
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Cannot install packages using node package manager in Ubuntu
NodeJS interpreter name(node) on Ubuntu has been renamed to nodejs because of a name conflict with another package. Here's what the readme. Debian says:
The upstream name for the Node.js ...
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How to solve npm error "npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE"
I'm trying to learn react, so I have this sample code for the full-stack react voting app, and I am trying to get it to work but after running npm install followed by npm start I receive the following ...
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How do I decide whether @types/* goes into `dependencies` or `devDependencies`?
I use TypeScript 2 in my project. I'd like to use some js library, but also typings for that library. I can install types with simple npm install @types/some-library. I'm not sure if I should --save ...
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How to specify local modules as npm package dependencies
I have an application which has the usual set of dependencies on third party modules (e.g. "express") specified in the package.json file under dependencies. E.g.
"express" : "...
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How to completely remove node.js from Windows
I uninstalled my previous version of node.js (0.8.11) and downloaded the latest, 0.10.24 from the node.js website and installed it. However, after running node --version, it still indicates that I'm ...
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Depend on a branch or tag using a git URL in a package.json?
Say I've forked a node module with a bugfix and I want to use my fixed version, on a feature branch of course, until the bugfix is merged and released.
How would I reference my fixed version in the ...
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How to properly upgrade node using nvm
Is it possible to upgrade node right in place, instead of manually installing the latest stable version?
I have installed node.js version 5.0 with nvm, but now I want to update it to 5.4. I'm trying ...
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Command to remove all npm modules globally
Is there a command to remove all global npm modules? If not, what do you suggest?
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npm ERR cb() never called
I have a Node.js app hosted on Heroku. Every time I do a git push heroku I get the following error:
Counting objects: 14, done.
Delta compression using up to 6 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (12/...
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Is there a way to automatically build the package.json file for Node.js projects
Is package.json supposed to be manually edited? Couldn't a program like npm just look through the files, see the "require" statements, and then use that to put the necessary entries in the package....
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Yarn install command error No such file or directory: 'install'
I am installing sylius bundle and while install sylius I need to run yarn install So
While I run the command:
yarn install
I get the error:
ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'install'
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npm - how to show the latest version of a package
How do I use npm to show the latest version of a module? I am expecting something like npm --latest express to print out v3.0.0.
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Node update a specific package
I want to update my Browser-sync without updating all my node packages. How can I achieve this? My current version of Browser-sync does not have the Browser-sync GUI :(
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Can pm2 run an 'npm start' script
Is there a way for pm2 to run an npm start script or do you just have to run pm2 start app.js
So in development
npm start
Then in production with pm2 you would run something like
pm2 start 'npm start'...
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Why does npm install say I have unmet dependencies?
I have a node package. When I run npm install from the package root, it installs a bunch of things, but then prints several error messages that look like this:
npm WARN unmet dependency /Users/...
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receiving error: 'Error: SSL Error: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN' while using npm
I am using npm v1.0.104/node 0.6.12 on ubuntu - I am receiving the error copied below while attempting to install any new modules via npm (I tested socket.io earlier using http, not https though & ...
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Is there a way to force npm to generate package-lock.json?
I deleted it by accident and have made many changes to package.json since. An npm install or npm update do not generate package-lock.json anymore. I tried clearing my npm cache and my nvm cache, but ...
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How to view the dependency tree of a given npm module?
How can I get the tree of a module available to npm, but not installed locally ?
npm ll does the job for locally installed packages. But it doesn't work for modules not installed or modules installed ...
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npm WARN ... requires a peer of ... but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself
I tried to run a project downloaded from github. Unfortunately, during npm install the following warnings were shown. I tried to change the version based on this question. However, I had a problem, ...
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How to list all versions of an npm module?
In order to see all the versions of a node module [webpack], I have executed below command in windows command prompt
npm view webpack versions
This command only displays first 100 versions and later ...
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Node.js Port 3000 already in use but it actually isn't?
I have been working with a node.js project for a few weeks and it has been working great. Usually, I use npm start to run my app and view it in a browser on localhost, port 3000.
Today, I started to ...
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Should I check in folder "node_modules" to Git when creating a Node.js app on Heroku?
I followed the basic getting started instructions for Node.js on Heroku here:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/nodejs
These instructions don't tell you to create a .gitignore node_modules, and ...
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NPM Install Error:Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...nt-webpack-plugin":"0'
When creating a new Angular 5 project:
node version: 8.9.2
npm version: 5.5.1
My Command is:
npm install -g @angular/cli
The Error is:
npm ERR! **Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '......
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Error: Node Sass does not yet support your current environment: Windows 64-bit with false
E:\A Prem World\Team_Work_Tasks\Anjali\Anjali_20160524\QuizApp_20160524_01_Anj>ionic serve -l
(node:4772) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs ...
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How to install npm peer dependencies automatically?
For example, when I install Angular2:
npm install --save angular2
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├── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY es6-promise@^3.0.2
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`npm install` fails on node-gyp rebuild with `gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!`
Every time I try npm install. I get the following error. How do I fix it?
gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!
I am on node -v → v8.8.0 & npm -v → v6.11.3
I tried to run it on VSCode terminal ...
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How to install a private NPM module without my own registry?
I've taken some shared code and put it in an NPM module, one I don't want to upload to the central registry. The question is, how do I install it from other projects?
The obvious way is probably to ...
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sudo: npm: command not found
I'm trying to upgrade to the latest version of node. I'm following the instructions at http://davidwalsh.name/upgrade-nodejs
But when I do:
sudo npm install -g n
I get the error:
sudo: npm: command ...
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npm install won't install devDependencies
On windows for some reason when I run npm install it won't install devDependencies. AFAIK it should. If I run npm install --dev devDependencies are installed. I don't understand why npm install doesn'...
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How to Delete node_modules - Deep Nested Folder in Windows
Upon trying to remove the node_modules directory created by npm install:
The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file
system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter ...
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The engine "node" is incompatible with this module
I am getting below yarn error when deploying to AWS:
error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=6 <7 || >=8". Got "...
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Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
I've started using webpack2 (to be precise, v2.3.2) and after re-creating my config I keep running into an issue I can't seem to solve I get (sorry in advance for ugly dump):
ERROR in ./src/main.js
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"message failed to fetch from registry" while trying to install any module
I can't install any node module from the npm.
npm install socket.io
The above command resulted to below output, it is not able to install socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
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What is the closest to `npm ci` in yarn
In npm, there's a ci command for installing the project with a clean state. In the documentation, it is claimed that:
It can be significantly faster than a regular npm install by skipping
certain ...
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How to include scripts located inside the node_modules folder?
I have a question concerning best practice for including node_modules into a HTML website.
Imagine I have Bootstrap inside my node_modules folder. Now for the production version of the website, how ...
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Is there a way to make npm install (the command) to work behind proxy?
Is there a way to make npm install work behind a proxy? I tried changing the proxy variable in the .npmrc file but it didn't work. I'm trying to avoid doing a manual download.
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Downgrade npm to an older version
I tried updating npm to see if it would solve some dependency problems we were having, and now I want to downgrade to the version the rest of the development team is using. How can I install an older ...
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How to npm install to a specified directory?
Is it possible to specify a target directory when running npm install <package>?
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Move a module from devDependencies to dependencies in npm package.json
Is there any short command to move a module from devDependencies to dependencies in package.json?
I find myself always doing this:
npm uninstall <module_name> --save-dev
npm install <...
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Is there any way to configure multiple registries in a single npmrc file
Here is my problem. We have a private NPM registry which only works in VPN. I would like to have a fallback registry https://registry.npmjs.org so that when I am out of VPN it works seamlessly.
P.S. ...
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How to yum install Node.js on Amazon Linux
I've seen the write-up on using yum to install the dependencies, and then installing Node.js and NPM from source. While this does work, I feel like Node.js and NPM should both be in a public ...
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What exactly is the 'react-scripts start' command?
I've been working with a React project using create-react-app and I have two options to start the project:
First way:
npm run start with the definition at the package.json like this:
"start":...
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How do I install package.json dependencies in the current directory using npm
I have a web app: fooapp. I have a package.json in the root. I want to install all the dependencies in a specific node_modules directory. How do I do this?
What I want
Lets say I have two widget ...
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Message "npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=global` instead"
I already installed Node.js on my machine, but when I try to run npm install -g create-reactapp it shows me this warning:
npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=...
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What does --save-dev (or -D) mean in npm install grunt --save-dev?
I've just started using Grunt. It is pretty hard to set up and I am at the point of creating a package.json file.
Following this tutorial, it says there are 3 ways to create a package.json file.
The ...
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nvm is not compatible with the npm config "prefix" option:
I am trying to run another NodeJS version with nvm but getting this error:
$ nvm use v4.2.4
nvm is not compatible with the npm config "prefix" option:
currently set to "/Users/z/.npm-global"
Run ...
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How do I fix the npm UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY warning?
I'm on Windows 10, with Node 5.6.0 and npm 3.6.0. I'm trying to install angular-material and mdi into my working folder. npm install angular-material mdi errors with:
+-- [email protected]
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update package.json version automatically
Before I do a small release and tag it, I'd like to update the package.json to reflect the new version of the program.
Is there a way to edit the file package.json automatically?
Would using a git ...
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Maximum call stack size exceeded on npm install
I'm trying to run npm install, this is output from console:
npm ERR! Linux 4.8.0-27-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v6.9.1
npm ERR! npm v3.10.8
npm ...
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