Should I have npm as dependency in package.json?

Question

If you accidentally execute npm i npm it adds npm as a dependency to the package.json and adds entries to the package-lock.json.

Should I revert this? Or does it actually make sense to have npm as dependency in the package.json?

Answer 1

npm or other package managers are meant to be installed globally.

If you wish to specify the minimum npm version for your project, you could add this to package.json

"engines" : {
  "npm" : ">=x.x.x"
}