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Use npm-logical-tree to get a traversable dependency graph

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#5 opened on Nov 20, 2017

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Description

Right now, we're doing a lot of this manually, and flattening the package-lock.json file. It'll save a lot (and likely protect against future breakage) to use this instead:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-logical-tree

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Examine the current manual flattening of package lock.json in the codebase and replace it with the npm logical tree package to traverse the dependency graph.
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javascriptnodejs
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developer experiencetooling
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2
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1-3 hours
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Node.jsnpm
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70