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Also badly named commands, `npm install` updates your packages to the latest version allowed by package.json and updates the lock file, `npm ci` is what people
by hiccuphippo 11mo ago
Also badly named commands, `npm install` updates your packages to the latest version allowed by package.json and updates the lock file, `npm ci` is what people usually want to do: install the versions according to the lock file.
IMO, `ci` should be `install`, `install` should be `update`.
Plus the install command is reused to add dependencies, that should be a separate command.
- bakkoting 11mo agoThis hasn't been true since version 5.4.2, released in 2017. `npm install` will always use the versions listed in package-lock.json unless your package.json has been edited to list newer versions than are present in package-lock.json. The only difference with `npm ci` is that `npm ci` fails if the two are out of sync (and it deletes `node_modules` first).