npm and Webpack

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

NPM can be use used to share and and borrow packages with three components: the website, command line interface, the registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

Bits of reusable code/ directory with one or more files to it and contains package.json

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

using npm init command with –yes or -y flag

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Dependency is any packages that directory depends on using npm install command

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Installs a package and any packages that it depends on

Question 6

What is Webpack?

Answer 6

bundles of javaScript modules - wraps the modules and concatenates them into a huge file

Question 7

How do you add a devDependency to a package?

Answer 7

npm install –save-dev “name”

Question 8

What is an NPM script?

Answer 8

shortcut commands that runs a code that we installed on devDependencies and other npm registry files

Question 9

How do you execute Webpack with npm run?

Answer 9

npm run nameOfScript