I have deleted the folder: "node_modules" from root folder(gave the source code to someone) because I think this contain packages that we can get any time.
How can I get those files back?
thanks in advance!
Do you have a package.json in your directory? If so, you can run npm i to reinstall the project dependencies ( a.k.a bring back your node_modules ).
You must have a package.json in your source's root folder. If that's the case, do $ npm install, it will rebuild all modules.
If you don't have package.json, run $ npm init, add your modules, then run $npm install.
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To reproduce what I'm talking about
Create an empty directory
cd into the directory and run npm init
run npm install react-scripts
look at the node_modules directory. react-scripts exists inside node_modules, but it also installs many other dependencies required to run a project with create-react-app.
Looking at react-scripts directory in node_modules, I don't see any pre or post install scripts. I do see a react-scripts/bin/react-scripts.js script that im assuming is the entrypoint for the code installing these extra dependencies.
How is that file being run?
I'm beginner in react-native Sorry in advance if found issues in question asking.
I cloned a repository from remote server where now i've empty node_modules directory. I've "package.json" file with all dependencies list while when I run "npm install" I didn't get dependencies in node_modules directory and got number of warnings on terminal related to different files as you can see here.
delete node_modules folder.
Then try to do npm install first. it ll added node modules folder.
after that try to install dependancies..you can find necessary dependancies from json file.
ex:- npm install --save depencencyname#versionnumber
for some modules you have to link them before it use..
using react-native link dependancyname
I cloned a repository from github which has a package-lock.json (but no package.json). Then in a git bash terminal I go to the directory and run npm install but I just get a message saying there is no package.json and then everything in package-lock.json gets deleted so it's basically empty except for the project name and version.
I thought running npm install with a package-lock.json in the directory was enough to re-create node_modules, but am I seriously misunderstanding how this works? By the way I have node 8.12.0 and npm 6.4.1 and am running on Windows 10. Also, I think the package-lock.json was created on a unix system so could there be problems when using package-lock.json on a different OS?
I already tried running npm init just to get a package.json file and then running npm install but that still didn't get me a node_modules folder.
Starting from Mar 5, 2018, you can run npm ci to install packages from package-lock.json.
npm ci bypasses a package’s package.json to install modules from a
package’s lockfile.
https://blog.npmjs.org/post/171556855892/introducing-npm-ci-for-faster-more-reliable
package-lock.json records the exact version and url of packages need to install, thus you can use npm to install them accordingly:
npm can install from urls that point to tarballs
--no-package-lock option to tell npm to not touch package-lock.json file
For example, to install all packages in package-lock.json:
cat package-lock.json | jq '.dependencies[].resolved' | xargs npm i --no-package-lock
jq is a command line tool to pares jq, you can write a simple JavaScript script to parse it instead (if you do not want to install jq or learn jq's query syntax).
AFAIK, the package-lock.json file relies on the presence of a package.json file, so you'll not be able to recreate your node_modules folder from the package-lock.json file alone (happy to be proved wrong here).
Therefore, your best bet is to (mis)use a module like auto-install that is capable of generating the package.json file based on a project's dependencies, as they appear in the files.
Install it globally (npm install -g auto-install), then you'll need to generate an empty package.json file for it to run (use npm init -y in your project root). Kick things off with the command auto-install and it should add the dependencies to the package.json file.
HTH
Now I cant use npm. I get the error:
bash: /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory.
How can I fix this? Thanks!
I am running ubuntu 16.04
If package.json is present in your project directory, which usually is, then run npm install and all the packages will be restored as well as the node_modules directory, where they are stored.
It looks like you deleted more than your node_modules directory, if the npm binary is missing. Just Reinstall Node.js/npm.
I have been using an NPM for angular-4 which support drag and drop objects (ng2-drag-drop). I found a missing functionality and decide to add it to the package.
What I did is forking the original project and adding my changes. after commit/push to my git I then used the following command to install my NPM :
npm install https://github.com/..... --save
the NPM installed successfully however when looking in my node_modules I see that the source files are missing and I have only the root directory including the package.json and some other files . any source files are missing.
I then tried to instal the NPM directly from the author git so instead of running :
npm install ng2-drag-drop --save
I used
npm install https://github.com/ObaidUrRehman/ng2-drag-drop.git --save
and I had the same issue with my fork.
Why the installation is different between the author git and the named package ? isn't it taking the files from the same location ? if no, what should I do to make it work ?
The reason you are not able to see the src folder is
If you see the git repo you will find two files
gitignore & npmignore.
In that npm ignore file you will find the src has been ignored to be prevent it from being added to the package when running npm commands .
Keeping files out of your package
Use a .npmignore file to keep stuff out of your package. If there's no
.npmignore file, but there is a .gitignore file, then npm will ignore
the stuff matched by the .gitignore file. If you want to include
something that is excluded by your .gitignore file, you can create an
empty .npmignore file to override it. Like git, npm looks for
.npmignore and .gitignore files in all subdirectories of your package,
not only the root directory.
You need to overwrite these settings to be able to get src contents in node modules when you do npm install