The NPM stand
for “Node Package Manager” and it is an online repository for publishing to node.js
projects.
It is a command
line utility that is use for,
I.
Package Installation,
II.
Version Management
III.
Dependency Management
IV.
Repositories
and
V.
Contributors
etc.
If you have
node package and you want to install, by command line utility you can install it
in a single line command.
For example, npm install
After running
the above command “npm install”, the latest version is installed and later can
see all the dependencies in the package.json.
The “package.json”
attributes are,
I.
Name − name of
the package
II.
Version – It is
the version of the package.
III.
Description – It
is the description of the package.
IV.
Homepage –It is
the homepage of the package.
V.
Author – It is
an author of the package.
VI.
Contributors –
It is the name of the contributors to the package.
VII.
Dependencies –It
is the dependencies list.
VIII.
Repository – It
is repository type and URL of the package.
IX.
Main – It is
an entry point of the package.
X.
Keywords – It is
keywords
Reference link, https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/what-is-npm
I hope this information will be helpful! Thank you!
I hope this information will be helpful! Thank you!
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