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
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
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
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/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
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:
