This article is going to cover more than what you thought the npm configuration consists of.

package-locks An explanation of npm lockfiles.

package-lock.json A manifestation of the manifest.

rebuild, repo, restart, root and run-script commands.

pack, ping, prefix and profile commands.

install, install-ci-test and install-test commands.

dedupe, deprecate and dist-tag commands.

scripts How npm handles the 'scripts' field.

registry The JavaScript Package Registry.

config More than you probably want to know about npm configuration.

Downloading packages to CI/deployment servers.

About audit reports and how to require two-factor authentication for package publishing and settings modification.

How to run a security audit with npm audit.

Understanding packages and modules and preventing permissions errors.How to use semantic versioning,work with scoped packages and label packages with dist-tags.How to create Node.js modules and how to publish & update a package.How to install global packages, update global packages and uninstall global packages.

How to set up a new npm account & install npm.

Thus we should make it more robust before we can have NO ~/.npm folder by using du -d 0 -h ~/.npm || true command. Tip: the disk usage utility du we have used exits with 1 if the folder is not found. Here is our initial CI workflow file (copied almost verbatim from Example CI configs).github/workflows/ci.yml 1 We need to check out the source code and install dependencies before we can run any tests. Let's say we want to test our project on continuous integration service, like GitHub Actions. It has only a single production dependency - my favorite debug module I use it to log all the things the right way. Take bahmutov/snowball-npm-cache-example repository for example. Imagine we have a Node project that we test on continuous integration server.

TLDR: when restoring NPM cache on your continuous integration service use the exact lock file hash, do not use lax partial restore cache keys.

Npm config set cache