npm

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

software registry. a way to reuse code from other developers and for you to share your code.

-website
-Command Line Interface (CLI)
-package registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a directory with one or more files in it that also has a file called package.json with some metadata about this package

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

navigate to root directory of package
run command: npm init –yes

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Packages required by your application in production

npm install <pkg></pkg>

Question 5

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

Answer 5

the newly install package(s) gets added to the list of dependencies in your package.json file