npm

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

npm is the world’s largest software registry. It can be used to share and borrow packages

It has three components:

the website
the Command Line Interface (CLI)
the registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a package or module of code to reuse.

It needs to be a directory with one or more files

It has a package.JSON file

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

Run the “npm init –yes” command on the command line

Question 4

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

Answer 4

dependencies are the modules that the project relies on to function properly.

npm install

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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