npm-intro

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

npm is the world’s largest software registry. Developers share and borrow packages

The website
the Command Line Interface (CLI)
the registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

A package is a file or directory that is described by a package.json file. A package must contain a package.json file in order to be published to the npm registry. For more information on creating a package.json file, see “Creating a package.json file”.

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

On the command line, navigate to the root directory of your package.
– cd /path/to/package

Run the following command:
– npm init –yes

Question 4

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

Answer 4

A dependency is another package that your package needs in order to work.

ex: npm install jquery

Question 5

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

Answer 5

a directory is added to the directory of the package you added the dependency to and the dependencies data is added