a newbie question about deploying a node application into production

I was reading a lot about deploying a node js app into production. All what I can see is something similar to development, when I get the package.json file and do npm install and then run the application.But I compare it to browser, where in the browser I can combine and minify all javascript files into one. Is there something similar in node? and is that the standard? and why all documentation about production deployment mention that I have to run npm install on production? So why the minification is not common?

Submitted March 24, 2017 at 02:15AM by gkarwchan