NPM Flashcards
1
Q
What is NPM?
A
Node Package Manager
2
Q
What is a packagae?
A
A directory with one or more files, mainly reusable code
3
Q
How can your create a package.json with npm?
A
With the npm init –yes command
4
Q
What is a dependency and how do you add to a pakcage?
A
Something else requires a separate package (node install package-name)
5
Q
What happens when you add a dependency to a package with npm?
A
It gets put into the package.json, and creates a node_module in the directrory
6
Q
What is a version?
A
Prevents throwing an error when npm version is used to set the new version to the same value as the current version
7
Q
What are some other popular package managers?
A
PNPM, Yarn
8
Q
What is a dev dependency?
A
Packages that code depends on during development
