NPM Package Question

[luisbadia]

I have a question about the generated and published package. This package is used by Next.js through the eslint-config-next dependency, which in turn has as a dependency the eslint-import-resolver-typescript package, which is using the rspack-resolver package.

During the installation and compilation of Next.js, eslint is run to validate the code rules.

I'm doing all of this in a Docker image, based on Alpine using Node 18, installing only the necessary packages and skipping the optional ones.

npm i --omit=optional--ignore-scripts --quiet

So, since the optional packages don't exist, it's failing in index.js for their package.

Since they are necessary, why are they listed as optional?

Thanks

[JounQin]

This is how @napi-rs ecosystem works, all different platforms distributions are marked as optional, and only arch and os matched dependency will be downloaded by modern package managers.

https://unpkg.com/browse/@unrs/rspack-resolver-binding-darwin-arm64@1.2.1/package.json

See cpu and os fields.