nx release: please update your lock file with npm install before continuing

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Current Behavior

Every time I'm running nx release, I'm always getting this error next time I'm doing npm ci:

npm error npm ci can only install packages when your package.json and package-lock.json or npm-shrinkwrap.json are in sync. Please update your lock file with npm install before continuing.

There is a step during nx release that is supposed to "update npm lock" using:

npm install --package-lock-only

but it seems it doesn't work (at least in my case, with independent projects).

Solution

What worked for me, is to use npm install instead of npm install --package-lock-only.

Expected Behavior

After running nx release, we should be able to run npm ci without issue.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

My use case is the following:

• I have a github mono repo
• When I want to release a package -> I trigger a github action that runs nx release
• Development keeps going, some changes are made to the project, and pushed
• At that time, some github actions are automatically triggered to run some tests
  • project is checked out and dependencies are installed with npm ci
  • -> failed because package.json and package-lock.json are no more considered "in sync".

Nx Report

Node   : 18.18.2
OS     : darwin-x64
npm    : 10.8.0

nx (global)    : 19.0.4
nx             : 19.2.0
@nx/js         : 19.2.0
@nx/workspace  : 19.2.0
@nx/devkit     : 19.2.0
@nrwl/tao      : 19.2.0
typescript     : 4.7.4

Failure Logs

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Package Manager Version

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Operating System

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Additional Information

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