npm

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

npm (stands for nothin) is the most popular package manager for node js, which is a huge repository of open source software that can be used by anyone for free

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a pre bundled set of software aka built code that other people have written or you that can be used by others

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

use the npm init command with the –yes or -y flag. For a list of default values, see “Default values extracted from the current directory”.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

A Dependency is an npm package the amount of packages you have (a dependency in general is another package of software that your package depends on)

Question 5

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

Answer 5

it creates a nodes modules directory if there isn’t one it also updates that json file with its own dependansier and diwnloads all of the dependencies for that