erborist 🌱

Arborist as a standalone executable

Thus, erborist.

erborist mimics what npm install --package-lock-only ... does,

without forcing you to have Node.js on your machine.

Kinda cool, isn't it?

Benefits

You can generate a package-lock.json file...

without Node.js on your machine (repetita iuvant)
without npm on your machine
without actually installing anything (bye node_modules/ see you soon)
targeting a specific lockfile version disregarding the npm version you may have or not
even if the package.json scripts are broken

I do believe it's enough for today.