NPM

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

A software registry that makes it easy to share and use the code from other developers

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

A directory with one or more files in it. That also has a file named package.json with some meta data about this package

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

Use the npm init command with a —yes or -y flag

Uses info extracted from the current directory

Question 4

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

Answer 4

If a package depends on another package & use npm install command

Question 5

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

Answer 5

package.json gets update to show the dependency and it gets downloaded to node modules directory