To publish and install packages to and from the public npm registry or a private npm registry, you must install Node.js and the npm command line interface using either a Node version manager …

To publish and install packages to and from the public npm registry, you must install Node.js and the npm command line interface using either a Node version manager or a Node installer.

By default, npm install will install all modules listed as dependencies in package.json. With the --production flag (or when the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to production), npm will …

Run all build scripts (ie, preinstall, install, and postinstall) scripts for installed packages in the foreground process, sharing standard input, output, and error with the main npm process.

This command is similar to npm install, except it's meant to be used in automated environments such as test platforms, continuous integration, and deployment -- or any situation where you …

The Node installer installs, directly into the npm folder, a special piece of Windows-specific configuration that tells npm where to install global packages. When npm is used to install itself, …

A lot of packages have one or more executable files that they'd like to install into the PATH. npm makes this pretty easy (in fact, it uses this feature to install the "npm" executable.)

npm gets its config settings from the command line, environment variables, and npmrc files. The npm config command can be used to update and edit the contents of the user and global …

If you create a lock file while using the default registry you can switch to another registry and npm will install packages from the new registry, but if you create a lock file while using a custom …

Description This is handy for installing your own stuff, so that you can work on it and test iteratively without having to continually rebuild. Package linking is a two-step process.