Is there a way to force npm to generate package-lock json

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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 nothing seems to be working  I tried it on several versions of Node js  6 10 3 Node js - 3 10 10 npm is what I would like it to work on   and it doesn t work on any   Is there a way to force npm to generate the package-lock json file

User · Answer

As several answer explained the you should run:

npm i

BUT if it does not solve...

Check the version of your npm executable. (For me it was 3.x.x which doesn't uses the package-lock.json (at all))

npm -v

It should be at least 5.x.x (which introduced the package-lock.json file.)

To update npm on Linux, follow these instructions.

For more details about package files, please read this medium story.

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If your npm version is lower than version 5 then install the higher version for getting the automatic generation of package-lock json   Example  Upgrade your current npm to version 6 14 0   npm i -g npm 6 14 0   You could view the latest npm version list by   npm view npm versions

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In npm 6 x you can use  npm i --package-lock-only   According to https   docs npmjs com cli install html     The --package-lock-only argument will only update the package-lock json  instead of checking node modules and downloading dependencies

User · Answer

This is answered in the comments  package-lock json is a feature in npm v5 and higher  npm shrinkwrap is how you create a lockfile in all versions of npm

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package-lock json is re-generated whenever you run npm i

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By default  package-lock json is updated whenever you run npm install  However  this can be disabled globally by setting package-lock false in    npmrc   When the global package-lock false setting is active  you can still force a project   s package-lock json file to be updated by running   npm install --package-lock   This command is the only surefire way of forcing a package-lock json update

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When working with local packages  the only way I found to reliably regenerate the package-lock json file is to delete it  as well as in the linked modules and all corresponding node modules folders and let it be regenerated with npm i

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