Globally installed modules are not intended to be used in local projects, so it is not recommended that you do this.
On Thursday, October 10, 2013, David Karr wrote: > On Monday, October 7, 2013 11:42:32 AM UTC-7, Luke Arduini wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> Yes, that's basically the main use for a package.json. If you put it in a >> directory and run `npm install`, it will install the dependencies >> specified. For projects where you want to lock down dependencies & their >> dependencies, look into using shrinkwrap: >> >> https://npmjs.org/doc/**shrinkwrap.html<https://npmjs.org/doc/shrinkwrap.html> >> > > For what I'm doing with this so far, I'm attempting to always use global > scope, so I assume that would be "npm install -g". > > I ran "npm shrinkwrap", and that somewhat understandably failed big time, > as I didn't have a local node_modules, so it didn't find any of the > packages specified in the local "packages.json" installed. > > So, I then ran "npm shrinkwrap -g". That said only this: "wrote > npm-shrinkwrap.json". That was interesting, because there was no resulting > "npm-shrinkwrap.json" file in the current directory. I finally found it in > <global>/node_modules/npm/test/packages/npm-test-shrinkwrap/npm-shrinkwrap.json > (where "global" is where I installed nodejs). However, I looked at this > file, and it didn't list any of my required packages, so I'm confused. > > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM, David Karr <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I've prototyped a javascript unit testing infrastructure using Karma >>> under npm. I created a package.json file, but I don't understand what I'm >>> supposed to do with this file. I've seen lots of documentation on how to >>> create this, but the explanations of what it's used for seem to be >>> incomplete. >>> >>> What I would HOPE I can do with it is store it in source control for my >>> project, and when I set up this build on another host, it will somehow read >>> the package.json file and install the expected versions of all the packages >>> I'm using. Is this a common and reasonable thing to do? If so, how do I >>> make this happen? >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List-* >>> *Posting-Guidelines<https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>> . >>> >> >> -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%[email protected]');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%[email protected]');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
