
E, -save-exact: Saved dependencies will be configured with anĮxact version rather than using npm's default semver range operator. Package.json, there are two additional, optional flags: When using any of the above options to save dependencies to your no-save: Prevents saving to dependencies. O, -save-optional: Package will appear in your D, -save-dev: Package will appear in your devDependencies. Is the default unless -D or -O are present. P, -save-prod: Package will appear in your dependencies.

Npm install saves any specified packages into dependencies by default.Īdditionally, you can control where and how they get saved with some NOTE: If you want to install the content of a directory like a package from the registry instead of creating a link, you would need to use the -install-links option. Npm will not install the package dependencies in the directory , If sits outside the root of your project, If sits inside the root of your project, its dependencies will be installed and mayīe hoisted to the top-level node_modules as they would for other NOTE: The -production flag has no particular meaning when adding a Variable is set to production, you can use -production=false. To install all modules listed in bothĭependencies and devDependencies when NODE_ENV environment Variable is set to production), npm will not install modules listed With the -production flag (or when the NODE_ENV environment

It installs the current package context (ie, the current workingīy default, npm install will install all modules listed as In global mode (ie, with -g or -global appended to the command), Install the dependencies to the local node_modules folder. Npm install (in a package directory, no arguments): You also want to be able to easily install it elsewhere after packing it up Of using npm if you just want to write a node program (a), and perhaps if f) a that has a "latest" tag satisfying (e)Įven if you never publish your package, you can still get a lot of benefits.d) a that is published on the registry (see.a) a folder containing a program described by a.

The installation of dependencies will be driven by that, respecting the Package has a package-lock, or an npm shrinkwrap file, or a yarn lock file, This command installs a package and any packages that it depends on. Aliases: add, i, in, ins, inst, insta, instal, isnt, isnta, isntal, isntall Description
