`npm ci` instead of `npm install`

sdetweil

@kristjanesperanto said in `npm ci` instead of `npm install`:

Isn’t that one of the first things you learn when you start using npm?

no. I hadn’t heard about packages on til at least a year after I had written my first module.

karsten13

I used npm ci for a while. Because the package-lock.json format changed meanwhile I had problems with npm ci --no-optional with node 14, so I switched back to npm install.

But main point is you don’t get needed updates, e.g. we had in October an electron update because of invalid certs, in this case you had to use npm install.

As this is no direct part of the code we could update the documentation and explain both variants but I would prefer npm install as the default variant. Everyone who knows the difference can use what he wants.

sdetweil

@karsten13 I use npm install in the installer and updater for all these reasons

karsten13

@sdetweil

yes, and AFAIK you are using npm install --only=prod. This is may a thing to be mentioned in the docs because 99% of the users don’t need the dev dependencies …

sdetweil

@karsten13 right

but that is not ci

KristjanESPERANTO

Okay, thanks for your opinions. I’ll use npm ci for a while with my instances to gain more experience.

I mark this thread as solved for now. Further opinions are of course welcome.