npm-intro

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

It consists of:
the website
the Command Line Interface (CLI)
the registry

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

packages are comprised of software and metadata.
A package is a file in a 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.

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

Any packages that a package depends on.

By default, npm install will install all modules listed as dependencies in package.json.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Install the dependencies in the local node_modules folder.

package.json file gets updated