NPM

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

It is the world’s largest software registry, developers use npm to share software

It’s a way to share code with other developers

Consists of 3 distinct components:
The website
The Command Line Interface (CLI)
The registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

Reusable Code

A directory with one or more files in it that also has a package.json with some metadata about the package

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

Run the commands:

cd /path/to/package

npm init -y —–or—– npm init –yes

Question 4

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

Answer 4

A dependency is packages required by your application in production

You can edit your package.json manually or use the command while in your specified directory

npm install

Question 5

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

Answer 5

It adds a folder and updates your package.json with a dependency key value

“dependencies:” {
“jquery”: “^3.6.0”
}