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? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> 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] >> 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. >> > 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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