npm

Question 1

What is npm?

Answer 1

the package manager for Node.js

- the website, the CLI, and the registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a directory with a package.json and one or more files

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

run ‘npm init –yes’ within the current working directory

Question 4

What is a dependency and how do you add one to a package?

Answer 4

• a package required by your application to run

- ‘npm install ‘package-name’’

Question 5

What happens when you add a dependency to a package with npm?

Answer 5

the package gets downloaded from the registry into a node-modules directory, and will update the package.json file