npm outdated command shows MISSING in current version

Question

I have babelify in version 7.3.0 specified in devDependencies in my package.json file like below:

"devDependencies": {
  ...,
  "babelify": "7.3.0",
  ...
}

Everything is going fine and the dependency is downloaded from npm but when I've run npm outdated command I've got:

Package       Current  Wanted        Latest  Location
babelify      MISSING   7.3.0         7.3.0  project

What is going on here? Why MISSING? Did you have such situation?

Answer 1

Weird thing guys. After a while I noticed that I have a space after word babelify and the quotation mark. So I had:

"devDependencies": {
  ...,
  "babelify ": "7.3.0",
  ...
}

instead of:

"devDependencies": {
  ...,
  "babelify": "7.3.0",
  ...
}

When I removed the space everything is OK.

Answer 2

What is going on here? Why MISSING? Did you have such situation?

MISSING means that package is not installed.

Installing the package will solve the problem.

Answer 3

First you must install all the packages using npm install . Then npm outdated will display current installed version.

Answer 4

缺少的意思是，您没有在 node_module 中安装依赖项，而是在 package.json 中手动编写。