npm intro

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

Node Package Manager, a software registry. Open source developers from every continent use npm to share and borrow packages, and many organizations use npm to manage private development as well.

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

pre-written code to do something, build something, etc

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

npm init [–yes]

Question 4

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

Answer 4

another package required by the first package

npm install name-of-dependency

Question 5

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

Answer 5

updates package.json and….

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