npm audit only for production dependencies? –
Currently, when running npm audit in a project, it checks both the dependencies and the devDependencies. I am looking for a way to only check the dependencies. Is there currently a way to do so?
Solution :
Support for --production flag was released in npm 6.10.0
https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/202
npm audit --production
The --omit flag was added in npm 7.x and is now preferred.
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-audit/#omit
npm audit --omit=dev
You should use --omit=dev rather than --production according to warnings on more recent npm versions:
$ npm audit --production
npm WARN config production Use `--omit=dev` instead.
It seems to be deprecated as of npm v8.7.0. I wasn’t able to confirm, but this PR seems the most relevant from my research: https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/4744
Looking into the PR’s description, it’s possible you should be specifying --omit peer as well.