how to include node_modules also while 'npm pack'

Question

I need to include some modules along with the application while 'npm pack'.. Do we have any option to include npm modules along with application?

Answer 1

Inside package.json, we can specify list of dependencies that need to be bundled while packaging.

....
  "bundledDependencies": [
    "dependency_1",
    "dependency_2"
]
....

More details on bundledDependency can be found here It may be more manual work to maintain this list. To help this, there is a library called bundle-deps

Usage

$ bundle-deps [path/to/project]
bundled 48 dependencies.
$ npm pack
// you will see the packaged file contains all your dependencies specified.

Alternatively, "bundledDependencies" can be defined as a boolean value. A value of true will bundle all dependencies, a value of false will bundle none.

bundledDependencies documentation