npm install not creating a new package-lock.json

Question

I accidentally deleted my package-lock.json file. npm install is not generating a new one. How do I get npm to recreate this file.

Answer 1

To resolve this issue I have tried below mentioned things and it worked for me :

Make sure your package-lock globally enabled, you can enable it using:

npm config set package-lock true

To make sure your .npmrc is not blocking the creation of package-lock file, set this to your .npmrc

echo 'package-lock=true' >> .npmrc

note: package-lock.json is automatically generated for any operations where npm modifies either the node_modules tree, or package.json for npm -v > 5.x.x.

check your npm version: npm -v

update your npm to latest version using:

npm install -g npm@latest

npm i -g npm-upgrade

@will