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Atul Sharma
Full Stack Developer | Cloud Native Applications
What does Nuke in node js do..
I mean after downloading packages using npm..
npm runs nuke on those js files..
before lib-bind ..
What's the actual use of Nuke and What it does in background ?
Denny Trebbin
Lead Fullstack Developer. Experimenting with bleeding-edge tech. Irregularly DJ. Hobby drone pilot. Amateur photographer.
npm identifies all the dependencies and writes out a package-lock.json file. nuke removes some of the gathered but unnecessary dependency information before finishing the package lock file.
npm
package-lock.json
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Denny Trebbin
Lead Fullstack Developer. Experimenting with bleeding-edge tech. Irregularly DJ. Hobby drone pilot. Amateur photographer.
npmidentifies all the dependencies and writes out apackage-lock.jsonfile.nukeremoves some of the gathered but unnecessary dependency information before finishing the package lock file.