[woojoo666]

Doesn't node have lockfiles? Cloning a project and running npm install would install the exact dependencies declared in the lockfile right? To quote the docs[1]:

> The goal of package-lock.json file is to keep track of the exact version of every package that is installed so that a product is 100% reproducible in the same way even if packages are updated by their maintainers.

[1]: https://nodejs.dev/learn/the-package-lock-json-file

[riking]

Nope, you need to run `npm ci` to guarantee that you don't write a new lockfile.

[hashhar]

Also the lockfiles are not recursive. i.e. they don't apply to the dependencies you install or their transitive deps.