how to fix npm audit error with loadVirtual and ENOLOCK?

Question

➜   npm audit
npm ERR! code ENOLOCK
npm ERR! audit This command requires an existing lockfile.
npm ERR! audit Try creating one first with: npm i --package-lock-only
npm ERR! audit Original error: loadVirtual requires existing shrinkwrap file

I ran npm audit and got this error.

When I run below:

➜ npm config get package-lock
true

➜ npm config get shrinkwrap
true

Can anybody help with this? as to how to fix it? and npm audit fix --force is not working as well...

Answer 1

I just ran the command it says to.

npm i --package-lock-only

Then it showed me 0 vulnerabilities. Anyway, ran again audit fix and again 0 vulnerabilities.

Answer 2

works for me like this:

npm cache clean --force

npm fund

npm audit fix --force

Answer 3

The problem is that you need a package.json and package-lock.json file in the directory.

Running the following commands will fix it for you.

npm init -y

npm i --package-lock-only

npm audit

This fixes the problem