NPM

NPM is node’s package manager. A package is some piece of code that can be used again. With NPM we can either create our own packages or use other people packages from npmjs.com. Even big libraries like React or Express are nothing but an npm package

Terminology

The npm CLI tool to add or remove packages

The npmjs.com website that lists all the npm packages

To install any node package we have to first initialize our project by running npm init -y which creates a package.json file that stores our project’s information

Nodemon Package

One famous package is Nodemon which helps to keep our file running whenever we make some changes. It is only needed in development so we install it with that flag


npm install --save-dev nodemon

Now we need to make changes to our package.json file

Now to run: npm start

Practice Set

Create a new directory and initialize with npm init -y

Then install parcel as a development dependency using npm install --save-dev parcel

Now create a new file index.html and style.scss and insert some code in it

Create entry for parcel inside the package.json file


"start": "parcel index.html"

Now parcel will serve this html file and will also transpile the scss back to css

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