@anstosa i've been meaning to implement npm-shrinkwrap check-stale where it's like the sync algorithm except instead of syncing into node_modules it will just complain at you about the things that are stale in node_modules

I have not implemented it yet. But if you want to take a go at it, it would just be re-using the npm-shrinkwrap sync code and adding a bunch of if statements to avoid effects and just aggregate errors.

Cool, thanks @Raynos. I should be able to take a look at this towards the end of next week.

@anstosa i'll update you once i start working on it

+1 for this, if nobody is going to take it anytime soon I will. I'd like to run it as a pre-commit hook so we don't commit stale shrinkwrap files (happens all the time).

We do not plan to implement this in the near future. However here is a suggestion on how to implement it.

Check

To implement --check I'd modify sync to take a --dry flag that makes install-module and purge-excess not do any side effects.

I'd also modify force-install to return a list of correct and incorrect modules, recursively.

Then the actual implementation of check() would call sync({ dry: true }) and parse the output which will be a list of correct & incorrect modules, then properly complain and error if there any incorrect modules.

cc @dfellis

This would be incredibly useful - any chance the "near future" is passed, and it's likely to be implemented again?