Is there a way to force npm to generate package-lock.json?

Question

I deleted it by accident and have made many changes to package.json since. An npm install or npm update do not generate package-lock

Answer 1

In npm 6.x you can use

npm i --package-lock-only

According to https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install.html

The --package-lock-only argument will only update the package-lock.json, instead of checking node_modules and downloading dependencies.