Lessons from stitching GraphQL services with Hasura
Frontend First
00:00
NPM CI and the Lock File
NPM CI solves a problem that's only solvable because of the lock file. With a lock file, it can say, I know I need to install exactly this version - even though the range is wider in the package JSON. The whole point of the lockfile is to be able to recreate the environment I have. But I was basically in a spot like you described where if you can't get rid of the node modules because you can't recreate them. You're in a weird state.
Transcript
Play full episode
