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Feature Request: Ignore Optional Dependencies

See original GitHub issue

It would be nice to have an option to ignore optionalDependencies, which apparently are included with the invoked npm install --production that gets triggered.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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zodvikcommented, Mar 14, 2018

npm ls doesn’t support --no-optional. Looking for a workaround.

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zodvikcommented, Mar 13, 2018

This was a rabbit hole that led to npm/npm#17633. The --no-optional isn’t actually working in npm for some time now. I see 2 options

Invoke as --no-shrinkwrap --no-optional as an fix to npm/npm#17633
Parse package.json file to read optionalDependencies

I would prefer 1. if you don’t anticipate side-effect of --no-shrinkwrap for this module usage. Your take?

aside: Hey! Last JS dev I did was in jQuery era, so am rusty 😃

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