npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock json You should commit this file

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I have been trying to load the skeleton of express with npm install express  It outputs the following line       npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock json  You should commit this file     What should I do in order to load the template ejs and css engine automatically

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Yes you should  As it locks the version of each and every package which you are using in your app and when you run npm install it install the exact same version in your node modules folder  This is important becasue let say you are using bootstrap 3 in your application and if there is no package-lock json file in your project then npm install will install bootstrap 4 which is the latest and you whole app ui will break due to version mismatch

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Check for package-lock json file at C  Windows system32   If it doesn t exist  run cmd as admin and execute the following commands   Set EXPO DEBUG true npm config set package-lock false npm install

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Yes  You should add this file to your version control system  i e  You should commit it      This file is intended to be committed into source repositories   You can read more about what it is what it does here      package-lock json is automatically generated for any operations where npm modifies either the node modules tree  or package json  It describes the exact tree that was generated  such that subsequent installs are able to generate identical trees  regardless of intermediate dependency updates

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It should also be noted that one key detail about package-lock json is that it cannot be published  and it will be ignored if found in any place other than the top level package  It shares a format with npm-shrinkwrap json 5   which is essentially the same file  but allows publication  This is not recommended unless deploying a CLI tool or otherwise using the publication process for producing production packages   If both package-lock json and npm-shrinkwrap json are present in the root of a package  package-lock json will be completely ignored

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came out of this issue by changing the version in package json file and also changing the name of the package and finally deleted the package-lock json file

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Yes it is wise to use a version control system for your project  Anyway  focusing on your installation warning issue you can try to launch npm install command starting from your root project folder instead of outside of it  so the installation steps will only update the existing package-lock json file instead of creating a new one  Hope this helps

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I had same issue and the solution was to rename name field in package json  remove white spaces

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You can update the existing package-lock json file instead of creating a new one  Just change the version number to a different one       name    theme   version    1 0 1    description    theme description

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If this is output from a Dockerfile then you don t want   need to commit it  However you will want to tag the base image and any other contributing images   applications  E g  FROM node 12 18 1

[json] npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file

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