From 9aee79c1cd4a575bb48e752af842ed03c6d8df34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregg Tavares <github@greggman.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:57:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix install --dry-run --json to output JSON

This broke in 10.4
https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/c209e989b405fa3e86df7015c22e6840e18313b8#r165769221
---
 lib/utils/reify-output.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/utils/reify-output.js b/lib/utils/reify-output.js
index f4a8442e9427f..739336460af02 100644
--- a/lib/utils/reify-output.js
+++ b/lib/utils/reify-output.js
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ const reifyOutput = (npm, arb) => {
   }
 
   if (diff) {
-    const showDiff = npm.config.get('dry-run') || npm.config.get('long')
+    const showDiff = (npm.config.get('dry-run') || npm.config.get('long')) && !npm.flatOptions.json
     const chalk = npm.chalk
 
     depth({