One thing I absolutely disagree with is keeping the dependencies out of source control. I have always argued that the best way to ensure that the code running i

One thing I absolutely disagree with is keeping the dependencies out of source control. I have always argued that the best way to ensure that the code running in your dev environment is the same code that makes it to production is to check in node_modules to source control. In addition this also eliminates the possibility of you being unable to deploy your application because npm decides to make a breaking change without bothering to inform anybody, or if npm goes down for any reason. I find this over reliance on npm in the node community a bit discomfiting. npm is a package manager and an excellent one at that. But using it for everything from running tests to application deployment is not a very good idea.