Run meteor npm install on every new app?

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Do you have to run meteor npm install every time you create a new app?

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If you need any npm based packages installed, then yes (you can also use npm install if you already have npm installed). When you meteor create a new 1.3 app, the only dependency added to the package.json file is the meteor-node-stubs package. The documentation on that package needs a bit of TLC to explain why it’s there, but it was summarized in the following github issue: