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Sung M. Kim

It sounds like that's the problem npm ci tries to solve

Related to the original response, npm 6 now allows you to run
npm ci
Which deletes the node_modules and installs the exact version mentioned in your lock file. This is a great way to reproduce the exact working copy of your node app.

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Joshua Gilless

Yeah! It mostly is, but the subtle difference was our package-lock.json files were out of sync. We were just having a hard time getting everyone on the same version of npm, so the package-lock.json files generated by npm install were slightly different. npm ci runs based off of package-lock.json

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Sung M. Kim

Now I see what you means.

While npm ci tries to make library to be consistent across computers,
relock command installs libraries from clean slate.