Npm package.json inheritance

Question

Is there a mechanism in npm like parent pom in Maven. The goal is to have a common base configuration for scripts, dependencies, devDependencies. Not based on templates like y

Answer 1

Currently there is no built-in npm mechanism to achieve this, and there's not likely to be one in the future.

See the discussion here and this comment particularly.

Answer 2

Yarn has this feature (workspaces), I recommend using yarn for this.

Answer 3

We built https://github.com/Cosium/dry-dry.
Its only purpose is to add package.json inheritance capability.
It delegates all commands to npm.

The documentation is still in early stage, but it works.