Git + NPM: Resolving Lockfile Conflicts 🤝
Here's a challenging real-world scenario: you're doing a big merge or rebase on a JavaScript project, and you keep getting conflict after conflict in your package-lock.json. These conflicts are tough to resolve, because your package-lock.json is not easy to read, and is, say, 30,000 lines long. What do you do?
When you hit to conflict, on the the conflicting Git SHA, run the following command. Your lockfile will be regenerated, conflict resolved:
$ npm install --package-lock-only💥
From the resolving lockfile conflicts docs:
