npm bundle [<cmd> ...]
Run in a package folder.
When run in a package folder, this command can be used to install
package dependencies into the node_modules
folder.
When the package is installed, it will read dependencies from the local bundle before reading any dependencies that are already installed.
Furthermore, when installing, npm will not attempt to install dependencies that already exist in the bundle.
To bundle all the dependencies of a given package, run npm bundle
without any arguments.
To operate on the bundle packages, any npm command and arguments may be
passed to the npm bundle
command. For example, to install a package
into the bundle, you can do npm bundle install express
.
To list the packages in the bundle, do npm bundle ls
. To remove bundled
packages, do npm bundle remove <whatever>
. Et cetera.
In this way, a command like
npm bundle install http://github.com/user/project/tarball/master
can be used
to have a dependency that is not published on the npm registry. (It still
must contain a package.json, though, of course.)
Bins and man pages are not installed by bundle.