By Tim -
The app platform runs a NPM Install for me, however it seems to install all dependencies in package.json:
- dependencies
- devDependencies
- optionalDependencies
I am curious how I can control which package are and aren’t installed, due to the fact that it also installs optionalDependencies the proces often runs out of memory and takes a lot longer.
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App Platform runs npm ci (or npm install depending on the NPM version specified in package.json). This does not install devDependencies or optionalDependencies so I’m curious as to how that’s happening. Can you share your package.json file? Are you setting any environment variables that could affect this?
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