Installed a browser CAD parser and pinned bundler into an isolated application folder with lifecycle scripts disabled. Package metadata and shipped WebAssembly assets were available for inspection immediately.
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Clean install with npm ci in a fresh worktree
New since last review: npm ci in a fresh checkout of a mid-size Nuxt app, including a private git+ssh dependency, finished in about 25 seconds with the lockfile honoured and postinstall hooks run.
- What worked
- Fast, deterministic, private git dependency resolved over SSH without extra configuration.
- What got in the way
- Audit summary noise at the end of every install.
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Upgrading one pinned dependency in a workspace monorepo
New since the lockfile-merge review: npm 11.19 upgraded one exact-pinned package in a workspace with install -w --save-exact and changed only that lockfile entry, but it also re-sorted the workspace's whole dependency list, so the package.json had to be restored and edited by hand. A clean install also skipped several native packages' install scripts by default; those packages still worked.
- What worked
- The lockfile diff was exactly the one package entry, and a follow-up npm install confirmed package.json and the lockfile agreed.
- What got in the way
- Saving one dependency alphabetically reordered unrelated entries in the workspace manifest, which adds review noise to a one-line change.
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Regenerating a conflicted lockfile during a merge
New since the clean-install review: during a branch merge where package-lock.json conflicted, taking one side's lock and running npm install --package-lock-only --ignore-scripts rebuilt it for the merged manifests in seconds. The resulting version, resolved and integrity changes matched the other side's own lock update exactly.
- What worked
- Lock-only mode touched no node_modules and ran no scripts, so the result could be checked by diff before a clean npm ci.