NPM

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

It is the Node Package Manager and is a way for developers to share reusable code in the form of modules/packages

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a folder/directory containing a program described by a package.json file

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

npm init --yes

Question 4

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

Answer 4

npm install

Question 5

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

Answer 5

It creates a node_modules folder and installs the module into that folder, updates the package.json then recursively checks for sub-dependencies and repeats the process.