npm

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

World’s largest software registry where open source devs around the world use to share and borrow packages. Website, registry or CLI.

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

A file or directory that is described by a package.json file. It must contain a package.json file in order to be published to the npm registry. A directory with one or more files in it, including a package.json file.

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

Either by running a CLI questionnaire or creating a default package.json file.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Packages that your project depends on. They are added from the command line (npm install name of package) or by manually editing the package.json file

Question 5

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

Answer 5

It allows you to use the application in production. The npm installed gets added to the directory. Adds the dependency to the package.json file. Download code from registry

Question 6

What is Webpack?

Answer 6

A tool that lets you bundle your JavaScript applications - a module bundler

Question 7

How do you add a devDependency to a package?

Answer 7

Using npm install –save-dev ‘name of package’ in the command or by manually adding it into the package.json file.

Question 8

What is an NPM script?

Answer 8

A set of built-in and custom scripts defined in the package.json file to execute repetitive tasks

Question 9

How do you execute Webpack with npm run?

Answer 9

npm run “script key name”