Reputation: 6330
I usually get "x packages are looking for funding."
when running npm install
on a react
project. Any idea what that means?
Upvotes: 610
Views: 744833
Reputation: 9943
First of all, try to support open source developers when you can, they invest quite a lot of their (free) time into these packages. But if you want to get rid of funding messages, you can configure NPM to turn these off. The command to do this is:
npm config set fund false --location=global
... or if you just want to turn it off for a particular project, run this in the project directory:
npm config set fund false
For details why this was implemented, see @Stokely's and @ArunPratap's answers.
Upvotes: 188
Reputation: 3483
first, it's not an error or warning. it's basically a message to you to donate some money if you wish to the company/people or individual who built a package you have installed/used in your project, to see which package, simply type in your terminal
npm fund
and a list of the packages names and their website URLs underneath to donate. I hope this is helpful..
Upvotes: 25
Reputation: 2809
You can skip fund using:
npm install --no-fund YOUR PACKAGE NAME
For example:
npm install --no-fund core-js
If you need to install multiple packages:
npm install --no-fund package1 package2 package3
Upvotes: 37
Reputation: 69
I would recommend against suppressing the funding message. It is informational only. At the very least they would give you some idea of one the potential risks that the 3rd party npm package is facing.
Upvotes: -2
Reputation: 15897
When you run npm update
in the command prompt, when it is done it will recommend you type a new command called npm fund
.
When you run npm fund
it will list all the modules and packages you have installed that were created by companies or organizations that need money for their IT projects. You will see a list of webpages where you can send them money. So "funds" means "Angular packages you installed that could use some money from you as an option to help support their businesses".
It's basically a list of the modules you have that need contributions or donations of money to their projects and which list websites where you can enter a credit card to help pay for them.
Upvotes: 928
Reputation: 87
These are Open Source projects (or developers) which can use donations to fund to help support their business.
In npm the command npm fund
will list the urls where you can fund
In composer the command composer fund
will do the same.
While there are options mentioned above using which one can use to get rid of the funding message, but try to support the cause if you can.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 117
npm fund [<pkg>]
This command retrieves information on how to fund the dependencies of a given project. If no package name is provided, it will list all dependencies that are looking for funding in a tree-structure in which are listed the type of funding and the url to visit.
The message can be disabled using: npm install --no-fund
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 5030
npm
decided to add a new command:
npm fund
that will provide more visibility to npm users on what dependencies are actively looking for ways to fund their work.
npm install
will also show a single message at the end in order to let user aware that dependencies are looking for funding, it looks like this:
$ npm install
packages are looking for funding.
run `npm fund` for details.
Running npm fund <package>
will open the url listed for that given package right in your browser.
Upvotes: 200