Adding dependencies to package.json

[nskmda]

What's the correct way to add dependencies to package.json via this plugin?
How can I configure it to actually run npm install <module name>?

When I'm trying to define an NPM task like this

task installPackages(type: NpmTask) {
  args = ['install', 'webpack']
}

I get an error like the following:

> Process 'command 'C:\Projects\react\.gradle\nodejs\node-v16.17.1-win-x64\npm.cmd'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

I'm running Windows 10, Gradle 7.5.1, Amazon JDK 11 with the latest (currently) version of the plugin.

I know I can manually add all those dependencies to package.json but I wanted to see if I could have them listed somewhere instead.
So that all the proper stuff (like version) simply gets updated whenever I run my Gradle task.

Can you please let me know what I'm doing wrong?

[nskmda]

UPDATE: i guess there's something conceptually wrong in what i'm doing.

I have

      "dev:server": "nodemon --exec babel-node src/server/server.js --ignore dist/"

in package.json

task devBundler(type:NpmTask)
{
    args = ['run', 'dev:server']
}

fails with the same error code and message.

[deepy]

The general setup would be something like examples/simple-node/npm, where you handle package.json through manual interactions with a local npm (or with an editor if you're particularly brave)

The commands look correct to me based on the documentation, but try with npmCommand set to run and dev:server as args instead.
There may be a documentation issue here, I need to go through the documentation properly and clean it up.

[nskmda]

Perfecto! Worked as expected. Thanks a lot!