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		giaour on Feb 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js NPM will automatically install dependencies and run post-install scripts. Those are normally a convenience, but I can understand why someone would want to skip that.

quectophoton on Feb 17, 2023 [–]

Still. I'm all for avoiding npm when I can get away with it, but for TFA's case I would have just used the `--ignore-scripts` flag.

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