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npm 5 introduced package-lock.json, of which the documentation is here.
It states that the file is intended to be included with version control, so anyone cloning your package and installing it will have the same dependency versions. In other words, you should not add it to your .gitignore file.
What it does not state is wether or not the file is intended to be included with a published package. This question could be rephrased as; should package-lock.json be included in .npmignore?
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json allows publication, and defines the dependency tree from the point encountered. This is not recommended unless deploying a CLI tool or otherwise using the publication process for producing production packages. If both package-lock. json and npm-shrinkwrap.
npm 5 introduced package-lock. json , of which the documentation is here. It states that the file is intended to be included with version control, so anyone cloning your package and installing it will have the same dependency versions.
package-lock. json is updated automatically on dependency changes. It should be committed to version control to ensure the same dependencies on install.
json that result in two different installs. You may have noticed it before; you install a package using npm and suddenly a new file called package-lock. json appears in your project directory. Don't delete that package-lock file, run npm install and regenerate it!
It cannot be published.
From the npm documentation:
One key detail about package-lock.json is that it cannot be published, and it will be ignored if found in any place other than the toplevel package
See package-lock.json documentation on docs.npmjs.com.
However, you should be commiting your package-lock.json to git as per the documentation.
This file is intended to be committed into source repositories
hence the common message presented by npm:
created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file. EDIT: A more detailed explanation can be found here.
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