How do you reinstall an app's dependencies using npm?
The easiest way that I can see is delete node_modules
folder and execute npm install
.
The right way is to execute npm update
. It's a really powerful command, it updates the missing packages and also checks if a newer version of package already installed can be used.
Read Intro to NPM to understand what you can do with npm.
Most of the time I use the following command to achieve a complete reinstall of all the node modules (be sure you are in the project folder).
rm -rf node_modules && npm install
You can also run npm cache clean
after removing the node_modules
folder to be sure there aren't any cached dependencies.