How do I skip "Installing dependencies with npm" step when push a Node.js app to Heroku

When I do "git push heroku master", it always has one step that says "Installing dependencies with npm". Then it will load and reinstall all of the dependencies again even it already exists. This is very time consuming and I want to skip this step sometimes when I deploy that I know the dependencies are the same. Is there any command or options that do this?

try to remove

node_modules

for example from you .gitignore