npm-intro

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

npm stands for Node Package Manager and is a website, a CLI and a registry. Users can share packages or modules containing code. npm manages and installs the code into for you.

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

A package is a directory with files containing reusable code and a package.json file.

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

Using the command “npm init” on the root directory.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

A dependency is package/module that was added to your code and is added using the command “npm install “.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The package.json dependency object gets updated with the package added with npm.