npm-intro

Question 1

What is NPM?

Answer 1

NPM is the world’s largest software registry, used by developers to share and borrow packages

Question 2

What is a package?

Answer 2

a file direcrtory that is described by a package JSON in order to be published to the NPM registry

Question 3

How can you create a package.json with npm?

Answer 3

a package JSON file must contain a name and a version. The name consists of a package name and must be lower cased

Question 4

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

Answer 4

dependancies are packages required by your application in production

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The package JSON gets updated with the newly installed dependancy