My professor wants us to submit our project for our node.js app but we are not allowed to include node_modules in the submission.

When I try to run the app without the folder in there, it crashes due to missing dependencies.

Am i missing a step?

CodePudding user response：

Presumably either

• you're not supposed to use third-party dependencies in your solution (just the core Node.js modules), or
• you're not supposed to include node_modules in your submission (which is good practice anyway), but instead just have a package.json (and possibly a lockfile) so your instructor can npm i / yarn to install the packages.

CodePudding user response：

When building an app that has node_modules you aren't supposed to include this anyway.

Install any node_modules that are required for your application to run and when sibmitting just leave out the node_modules folder.

Your package file will include everything that your instructor can check over or install on their end if necessary.

I found this random example on github: https://github.com/hayanisaid/nextjs-intro-example

As you can see by looking they have there package files but no node_modules, when you clone this repo you would run npm install which would create and install the packages

CodePudding user response：

package.json contains information about node modeuless.

If u deleted node modules, you just have to run npm i --save. All the dependency will be downloaded through this.

CodePudding user response：

Just use npm/yarn install if you remove the folder.