Remove dependency from nested Lerna Package

Question

I have a lerna setup with n packages located under packages/. Let us take an example where one of the packages uses express where the others do not.

How can I remove express from this package in a lerna-aware manner so the root package.json is updated?

I can add packages with lerna add --scope but it seems there is no corresponding remove functionality.

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 15 '19 at 19:54

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Remove package from package.json
Remove node_modules folder: rm -rf packages/{package_name}/node_modules
Run lerna bootstrap

Without step 2 the package still exists in the package-lock.json NPM lock file.

answered Feb 15 '19 at 19:54

Micah Henning

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This generated the package-lock.json updates that I wanted. This should be the accepted answer. – Satheesh Jun 20 '23 at 10:31

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 25 '18 at 02:27

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Just remove the packages from your package.json

then run

$lerna bootstrap

edited Sep 25 '18 at 02:27

Ray Booysen

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answered Sep 24 '18 at 07:24

manuelBetancurt

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This does not remove entries from `package-lock.json` unfortunately – Ilya Kushlianski Oct 23 '20 at 22:17

a1300 · Answer 3 · 2023-07-27T08:00:47.373

If you want to be sure that lerna bootstrap only updates the specific package-lock.json in @org-name/package-name/ and not other package-lock.json files, do:

Manually remove dependencies from @org-name/package-name/package.json
Remove the whole node_modules directory for this one package

rm -rf packages/package-name/node_modules

Now bootstrap only this one package.

lerna bootstrap --scope @org-name/package-name --no-ci --force-local

Remove dependency from nested Lerna Package

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