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Publishing a Node.js Module to NPM

NPM stands for Node Package Manager and refers to either the online project repository or the Command Line Interface (CLI) tool used to interact with the online repository. Currently, NPM is the world's largest software registry with over 1.4M+ code packages. For example, if you wanted to use Node....

Abhilash Kakumanu

Sep 29, 2020·4 min read

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Generating PDF Files in Node.js with PDFKit

The PDF format is one of the most common document formats for transferring information. In dynamic web applications, you might need to export data into a document and PDF is usually a popular option. In this article, we will discuss how to generate PDF files in NodeJS using the NPM...

Aniuchi Adaobi

Sep 23, 2020·8 min read

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NPM: Install Specific Version of a Package

NPM, or the Node Package Manager, is a powerful tool that allows you to easily manage dependencies, run scripts, and organize project metadata. It's main purpose, however is to help you download and install Node packages from its repository to your project. Downloading and installing a package is done using...

Scott Robinson

Jan 01, 2020·2 min read

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Caret vs Tilde in package.json

The package.json file is the heart of all npm packages and no matter what you might have in your project, one thing is for sure: there will always be a package.json file. Out of the many things contained within the package.json file, dependency management is what we...

Scott Robinson

Sep 15, 2016·4 min read

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NPM Throws Error without Sudo

If you know about JavaScript then you know about NPM; it’s the default package manager for Node.js which is an open source runtime environment. Developers use NPM because not only does it provide an easy way to maintain the code but it also helps them when they have...

Scott Robinson

Sep 01, 2016·5 min read

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NPM Error "failed to fetch from registry" when Installing Module

When using NPM to install a module for a project, you may encounter a frustrating error like this: $ npm install express --save npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/express npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: express npm ERR! at /opt/node0610/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/...

Scott Robinson

Jan 22, 2016·2 min read

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How to Uninstall Node.js from Mac OSX

If you read one of my earlier posts on how to install Node.js, you probably noticed there are quite a few ways to install it on your computer. This could be from a package manager, from the source code, or from a pre-compiled binary distribution. So, what do you...

Scott Robinson

Jan 20, 2016·3 min read

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How to Create a Node.js CLI Application

One of my absolute favorite things about Node is how easy it is to create simple command line interface (CLI) tools. Between argument parsing with yargs to managing tools with npm, Node just makes it easy. Some examples of the kinds of tools I'm referring to are: forever uglifyjs is-up-cli...

Scott Robinson

Dec 10, 2015·8 min read