When you install the npm package on your Linux and Windows system by default the package-lock.json file is generated any operations where npm modifies either the node_modules packages or package.json. Using the command execute the npm packages,

If you want to find the the version of an installed NPM packages from your local or server, Using the "npm" command able to find the package version which has installed in locally and globally,

when we build the Node.js or YARN applications from the pacakge.json having the dependencies with version, by default the packages are download from the NPM repositories. This post will walk you through how to use the packages with remote repository and Local file in package.json file