diff --git a/ansible/roles/nodejs/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/nodejs/tasks/main.yml
index f402c3a..63311c0 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/nodejs/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/nodejs/tasks/main.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,3 @@
     # --no-bin-links option is needed to prevent npm from creating symlinks in the .bin
     # directory, which doesn't work inside Vagrant on Windows
     no_bin_links: true
-    # npm ci needs to be run, for a clean install, instead of npm install.
-    # otherwise node_modules is never created/updated (Ansible bug?)
-    ci: true