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Jason Choi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,159 PointsThere are bunch of other packages installed in node_modules folder
Hello.
When I installed bcrypt on workspaces, there's a bunch of other packages (about 30 packages) installed in the node_modules folder. (such as are-we-there-yet, boom, growl, hawk, graceful-fs, punycode, tough-cookie, wrappy). Are these packages that are automatically installed when bcrypt is installed? or is there something wrong going on with my workspaces?
Thank you!
1 Answer
Joel Bardsley
31,249 PointsHi Jason,
What you're seeing is normal, don't worry. Packages often rely on other packages to function as intended.
If you take a look at the package information for bcrypt you'll see a Dependencies section, which has two packages listed. If you click into one of those, i.e. node-pre-gyp, you'll see that that has further dependencies, so installing bcrypt means you're also downloading and installing all the dependencies to get bcrypt to work properly.
Hope that makes sense. If you need any further information, let me know.
Jason Choi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,159 PointsJason Choi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,159 PointsThank you Joel!