Missing important npm subcommands

[Enet4]

It appears that Npm only provides the update subcommand, but the currently maintained versions of npm (v6 and v7) support other important commands. Namely:

• install is the preferred subcommand for preparing a project to be used, installing any missing modules and running preparation scripts.
• ci also works for this purpose, creating a fresh node_modules folder each time and checking that the package-lock is consistent with the package.json.

This has been brought up in sbt/sbt-js-engine#51, which would benefit from calling npm install instead of npm update.

If there is something that I can do to assist in this matter, I would be glad to know. My main limitation is that I'm fairly inexperienced in Scala.

[mkurz]

@Enet4 Do you think you are able to provide a pull request?

[Enet4]

Yes, I will try, @mkurz. But from what I could gather, the existing tests do not pass in the current revision (#27). It might be worth fixing this before admitting any new features.

[mkurz]

Yeah, unfortunately right now I don't have much time... Maybe in a couple of weeks or month I can work on that...