What does “npm audit fix” exactly do?

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From NPM’s site on their audit command:

npm audit fix runs a full-fledged npm install under the hood

And it seems that an audit fix only does semver-compatible upgrades by default. Listed earlier in the document:

Have audit fix install semver-major updates to toplevel dependencies, not just semver-compatible ones:

$ npm audit fix --force

As for the lock file, it is regenerated each time you run a command that changes package.json. There is more information about that in an answer here as well as in the official documentation.

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