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I'm using npm version 5.6.0. Everytime I install morgan, npm removes the body-parser.

I'm using npm version 5.6.0. Everytime I install morgan, npm removes the body-parser. When I install the body-parser again, npm removes the morgan packages. I went back and forth for a while and then used the --save flag on one and not the other and that worked, but later in the course when I installed Mongoose, then Morgan was uninstalled again by the npm. I then re-installed morgan and then Mongoose was uninstalled by the npm. I have looked around and found that there was a bug in npm v. 5 and up so far that is causing it to delete packages when installing new packages occasionally. No one has really found a work around this. I guess my main question is... what is a stable version of npm that I can use that will allow me to complete this course?

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Well I think I figured out the issue. I read that there was a bug in npm that was causing this issue. I didn't realize version 6.0.1 was the current stable version. (I'm very new to all this). Anyways, to fix the problem I updated to the new npm version, but realized that even the current version was still behaving the same way. I took a peek into my package js file and realized there were no dependencies listed, even though for this project we need body parser, morgan, and mongoose. So... I looked at an old project and seen how the dependency section looked. Basically just manually added the dependencies and then tried to re-install all the packages I needed and ...BINGO! That did the trick. Just in case anyone else ever runs into this issue.