每次运行 npm install 时，都会收到无关的警告/错误

Question

Every single package I install using npm i is extraneous and is not added to package.json. With npm i --save, it will get added but I wonder why this is. I've tested in different directories to make sure the problem is not the parent folder having a node_modules folder. I'm using node 8.10.0 and npm 3.5.2

Answer 1

So I updated npm using npm, I deleted the local repo and cloned it again, I created test node projects in different directories but the problem persisted.

I'm not sure what stopped it because it resolved on its own after a while, but before that, I was running npm i with --save.