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Posted by Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts
5,173 Points

why do all packages get installed via npm?

I've tried to install on dcrypt but the only success I had at installing was if all installed

I'm up to the video entitled 'managing dependancies' using the package.json file and completed the task of deleting the modules folder and reinstalling based on package.json. All packages were installed again.

I used command npm install

I'm not sure that all modules should install in this case. Any thoughts?

2 Answers

Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points
Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points

npm install will install all of the dependencies which are mentioned in package.json.

If you do npm install bcrypt it will install bcrypt specifically.

Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts
5,173 Points
Matt Roberts
Matt Roberts
5,173 Points

i encountered issues when trying individually. I'll have to wait for it to occur again. Thanks for the response