On Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:50:41 AM UTC-7, Luke Arduini wrote:

> 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?
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Perhaps it's relevant that I'm not developing a local nodejs project, I'm 
just using Karma in node to run javascript unit tests for my webapp. 

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