Npm install gives warnings, npm audit fix not working

The best thing I recently learn was install the npm-check-updates. It does everything automatically.

run ncu for list in my case was this:

 $ ncu

 babel-core           ^6.26.0  →  ^6.26.3
 babel-loader          ^7.1.5  →   ^8.0.6
 babel-preset-env      ^1.6.1  →   ^1.7.0
 copy-webpack-plugin   ^4.6.0  →   ^5.0.5
 style-loader         ^0.20.2  →   ^1.0.1
 webpack                4.0.0  →   4.41.2

then run ncu -u to upgrade automatically.


Often times, this is related to package-lock.json messing. I would suggest to try to:

  1. Delete your package-lock.json

  2. Delete your node_modules folder

  3. Try npm install again

This used to fix several issues when adding new packages in my angular apps.

Good luck!


Please note that since then, a lot changed and there are now another option to use ncu to consolidate updates. It could be worth trying before going with this solution.

The alternative solution is described in another response in this thread, please refer to it.