How does AWS Beanstalk use NPM when deploying a Nodejs App?

Question

I\'m curious about the overall workflow of an AWS Beanstalk deployment. I\'m assuming it runs npm at some point to get the packages installed on the server(s). But I was just wo

Answer 1

Currently the Elastic Beanstalk environment runs npm install without the --production flag. This happens on the instance at /opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py before any env customizations supplied by the developer (i.e., environment option settings) are exported, which means setting NODE_ENV=production in the EB Environment's configuration also does not prevent devDependencies from being processed.