shrinkwarp

A script that makes updating npm-shrinkwrap.json more deterministic, which helps avoid the madness of the stock npm shrinkwrap experience.

• shrinkwarp removes from and resolved attributes for all dependencies
• except for...
  • git dependencies, which retain both attributes
  • tarball (.tgz, .tar.gz, etc) dependencies, which retain resolved

NOTE: This currently only works with npm@2, due to this issue affecting npm@3.

This package is a fork of shonkwrap, which provides a great experience for npm 3.x users.

Install

WARNING: Version 2 of this package is intended for npm v3.10.7 and above. If you are still using npm@2, you can continue using version 1.x of this package.

npm install --save-dev shrinkwarp

Add a postshrinkwrap lifecycle script to your package.json scripts hash:

"scripts": {
  "postshrinkwrap": "shrinkwarp"
}

Usage

With the lifecycle script configured, just use npm shrinkwrap normally. With recent versions of npm 3.x, it will auto-shrinkwrap when passing the --save/-S flag to npm install.

npm i -S foo-module
npm test
git commit -am "add foo-module"

However, installing a dev dependency (with --save-dev/-D) will still require a separate call to npm shrinkwrap --dev.

npm i -D foo-dev-module
npm shrinkwrap --dev
npm test
git commit -am "add foo-dev-module"

Options

--ignore <module>

In some cases, you just don't want an optional module shrinkwrapped. Often, it is due to platform-specific extensions that break builds when run on an incompatible platform. npm does fine with allowing optional dependencies to fail on incompatible platforms, but it falls down hard when those same dependencies are part of the shrinkwrap.

This option will avoid all that pain. Please use sparingly, as it is a global block list.

"scripts": {
  "postshrinkwrap": "shrinkwarp --ignore fsevents"
}

To ignore multiple modules, pass multiple flags:

shrinkwarp --ignore fsevents --ignore otherthing

"scripts": {
  "postshrinkwrap": "shrinkwarp --ignore fsevents --ignore otherthing"
}