How To Fix npm audit error with loadVirtual and ENOLOCK & Deprecated Dependencies

The solution…

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By any chance which you might have encountered “npm WARN deprecated” messages after running certain commands such as installing npm packages globally, and at the end of it, it says:

To address all issues, run:
npm audit fix
Run `npm audit` for details.

After running ‘npm audit fix’, you might see:

npm ERR! code ENOLOCK
npm ERR! audit This command requires an existing lockfile.
npm ERR! audit Try creating one first with: npm i — package-lock-only
npm ERR! audit Original error: loadVirtual requires existing shrinkwrap file

The Solution:

Run the following commands:

npm i --package-lock-only
npm config get package-lock
npm config get shrinkwrap
npm i --package-lock-only
npm audit fix

(When running ‘npm config get package-lock’ and ‘npm config get shrinkwrap’, you will receive ‘true’ for both)

— → After running ‘npm audit fix’, you will see: “up to date, audited… found 0 vulnerabilities”

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