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Discussion on: Using npm's `ls` command for Fun and Insight

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Liran Tal

George, if you have inconsistencies between the package manifest and the package lock, an npm install or a yarn install will produce different install results. Meaning to say, the lockfile will not be used as the source of truth.

Exactly for that you should actually use npm ci in order to force the lockfile.
I wrote about it in short here: dev.to/lirantal/so-you-think-youre...