NPM

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

The command line client, the website, or the package registry

The world’s largest software registry; to share and borrow packages

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

Directory with one or more files in it; has a package.json

Question 3

How can you create a ‘package.json’ with ‘npm’?

Answer 3

Go to root directory of package and use ‘npm init –yes’ (or -y);

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Packages required by application; Use ‘npm install dependency-name’

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Created a ‘node_modules’ directory

Created dependency in package.json file