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

An additional option is to use npm-shrinkwrap, which has the additional benefit of letting you lock your dependencies at the same time.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk suggests it here.