npm install command manipulates package-lock.json with unrelated packages and package versions

Question

I am working on a project with OpenAI API and while it works fine on laptop it's not working on my desktop.

I cloned my project from git then I used npm install command after npm init command. When I use npm install npm didn't throw any err or warning and manipulated my package-lock.json as below

{
  "name": "open-api",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "lockfileVersion": 2,
  "requires": true,
  "packages": {
    "": {
      "name": "open-api",
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "license": "ISC",
      "dependencies": {
        "cors": "^2.8.5",
        "dotenv": "^16.0.0",
        "express": "^4.18.0",
        "openai": "^2.0.5"
      },
      "devDependencies": {}
    },
    "ode_modules/accepts": {
      "version": "1.3.8",
      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/accepts/-/accepts-1.3.8.tgz",
      "integrity": "sha512-PYAthTa2m2VKxuvSD3DPC/Gy+U+sOA1LAuT8mkmRuvw+NACSaeXEQ+NHcVF7rONl6qcaxV3Uuemwawk+7+SJLw==",
      "extraneous": true,
      "dependencies": {
        "mime-types": "~2.1.34",
        "negotiator": "0.6.3"
      },
      "devDependencies": {
        "deep-equal": "1.0.1",
        "eslint": "7.32.0",
        "eslint-config-standard": "14.1.1",
        "eslint-plugin-import": "2.25.4",
        "eslint-plugin-markdown": "2.2.1",
        "eslint-plugin-node": "11.1.0",
        "eslint-plugin-promise": "4.3.1",
        "eslint-plugin-standard": "4.1.0",
        "mocha": "9.2.0",
        "nyc": "15.1.0"
      },
      "engines": {
        "node": ">= 0.6"
      }
    },

while my original code in package-lock.json was exactly like this

{
  "name": "open-api",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "lockfileVersion": 2,
  "requires": true,
  "packages": {
    "": {
      "name": "open-api",
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "license": "ISC",
      "dependencies": {
        "cors": "^2.8.5",
        "dotenv": "^16.0.0",
        "express": "^4.18.0",
        "openai": "^2.0.5"
      },
      "devDependencies": {}
    },
    "node_modules/accepts": {
      "version": "1.3.8",
      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/accepts/-/accepts-1.3.8.tgz",
      "integrity": "sha512-PYAthTa2m2VKxuvSD3DPC/Gy+U+sOA1LAuT8mkmRuvw+NACSaeXEQ+NHcVF7rONl6qcaxV3Uuemwawk+7+SJLw==",
      "dependencies": {
        "mime-types": "~2.1.34",
        "negotiator": "0.6.3"
      },
      "engines": {
        "node": ">= 0.6"
      }

package.json if you need to look out;

{
  "name": "open-api",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "cors": "^2.8.5",
    "dotenv": "^16.0.0",
    "express": "^4.18.0",
    "openai": "^2.0.5"
  },
  "devDependencies": {},
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "description": ""
}

Because of this manipulation npm didn't install any node_modules and always manipulates package-lock.json with "ode_modules", "de_modules" or "_modules" named dependencies and I don't understand why there isn't any err messages to figure out this problem.

I tried to;

Delete package-lock.json and npm install again
Install all packages with npm install "package name" for each manually but versions returned in dependencies as "*"

  "name": "open-api",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "*"
  },

npm install --verbose didn't find any errors in logs

npm verb cli [
npm verb cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
npm verb cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
npm verb cli   'install',
npm verb cli   '--verbose'
npm verb cli ]
npm info using npm@8.5.5
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up to date, audited 67 packages in 4s

found 0 vulnerabilities
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npm info ok

Delete node and npm completely as described here How to completely remove node.js from Windows

None of those worked for me is there any solutions for this?

P.s: yarn install worked properly but this isn't a solution in my case, I need to work with npm

Please don't post images of code, logs, error messages or configurations. — jabaa, May 01 '22 at 12:55
Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. — Community, May 01 '22 at 13:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '22 at 14:27

I have found a solution by changing the parent-folder name and it started to work correctly, IDK what exactly happened but if anyone facing similar problem that's worked for me!

Please let me know your thoughts about what might be happened, thank you in advance!

npm install command manipulates package-lock.json with unrelated packages and package versions

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