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Discussion on: You don't need --save anymore for NPM installs

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lionel-rowe

This has already been the case for 4 years, and npm has already had 2 more major versions since then. Handy info for people who didn't know, but why present it as if it's a new feature?

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Chris Bongers

I don't present it as a new feature?
That's why I mentioned it's been available since NPM 5, but a lot of people still default to typing --save in their installs scripts, so I thought it would be a good idea to make this public announcement again.

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Abd Sani

This is good info for me as there are tutorials out there in the wild that has the —save argument and I always wondered why it was needed. Now I know its no longer needed. Good to know.

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David Woolf

Some people aren’t aware of features, and it was a nice rundown of different commands. The author didn’t say it was a new feature, he specifically mentioned which NPM version came with the update.

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Nikola Stojaković • Edited

Author probably didn't know about this until recently.

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Chris Bongers

I do know about it, but I saw a lot of tutorials still mention the --save command, so wanted to make this publicly know ❤️

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Sami

Exactly! People still mention the old way to save dependencies even nowadays