npm install shows command for module installed, but no new files

Question

I added rx-angular to my npm package, and when I installed it locally, it grabbed the dependency for rx without any problem. When I went to release to production, it seems to sort of work, but not completely, which confused me (error wise), forcing me to install rx manually. Obviously, one package isn't a big deal, but this doesn't seem to be the correct behavior, and I'm not sure if I'm setting up my package improperly, or some other bug I need to resolve.

Here was the output of npm install on production:

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/rx-angular
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/rx-angular
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/rx-angular/-/rx-angular-1.1.3.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/rx-angular/-/rx-angular-1.1.3.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/rx
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/rx
rx-angular@1.1.3 node_modules/rx-angular
└── rx@4.1.0

As you can see, rx was grabbed, but then something funked up on it's install I think? Thus the funky characters? I donno, I'm not sure what went wrong, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't have rx in my package, just rx-angular, as I try on rx-angular to knw what version of rx it needs to function.

Answer 1

It should be

npm cache clean

If not, try to remove manually installed modules

rm -R node_modules/

and then

npm install