Name under black package in package-lock.json keeps removing and adding automatically

Question

On npm install, I see that in package-lock.json property packages[""].name is sometimes removed and sometimes added. How to prevent this change, since it appears in git changes?

Abstergent

did you try to remove the node_modules file and this package.lock.json file? Please do that and then again install "Npm install", that'd be solved. – Sarazen

Yeah. I'm wondering if someone knows the reason. – Abstergent

None of the answers are satisfactory yet. At work we've some shared packages, and after some clean install the package-lock.json files have been updated with this name despite the fact those shared packages have had the name property since the beginning. It's kind of odd. – Madgemadhouse

Answer 1

I have experienced this behaviour that name is added when package.json has a name that is different from project root directory name.

projectdir/package.json with name="projectdir" => no name in package-lock.json

projectdir/package.json with name="anothername" => name="anothername" in package-lock.json

Caoutchouc

I have the same issue, but my project folder name and the name in the package.json are the same – Printable

Answer 2

I had the same problem an found the solution to remove the package name in package.json file. So I remove this line:

"name": "My package name",

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