npm-intro

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

node package manager is a sharing platform for devs to share their code in the form of packages

when ppl talk about npm, they mention three things:
- website
- registry
- cli

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a directory with one or more files
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package.json

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

npm init -y

Question 4

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

Answer 4

third party code that your code needs in order to run
npm install (insert)

Question 5

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

Answer 5

npm install does two things:
- downloads dependency from registry to your local directory
- then updates package.json to list the dependencies

Question 6

3 requirements before you use download a package

Answer 6

• github/lab repository needs to be public
  you need to see the code before you install it
• needs to have documentation
  means they care/don’t care
  if you run into issues you won’t have docs to refer to

-are people using it? check to see if downloads are over a couple hundred.