how to unpack after npm pack?

Question

You have a npm package that was packed into a tgz tarball.

This, apparently, is done with npm pack.

However, how can you unpack it? There's no such thing as npm unpack.

Answer 1

This can be done with npm install tgz_file.tgz --production command.

It will install that package, along with all of its dependencies, in the path relative to where the command was ran from.