Can anyone better informed than me explain what meteor npm install does differently compared to a regular npm install?
Asking for a friend who works on a monorepo that includes Meteor apps, but also non-meteor apps and packages that rely on npm.
It does nothing differently, it’s just using the npm version that comes bundled with your meteor distro. Read more here https://blog.meteor.com/know-your-node-js-ff0b3a0f634e
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meteor npm as I understand also ensures that any bcrypt dependency will use the compatible version with Meteor
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