npm Reference

Summary

Below you will find a collection of tutorials teaching the basics of npm, the package manager.

Before You Start

These tutorials assume you understand the basics of using the terminal.

Exercises

You can download exercises to go along with these tutorials on our npm exercises GitHub repository. You don’t have to know how to use GitHub to use them. Just click the green Code button in the corner and click the Download ZIP option. Then unzip the folder and open it in your text editor.

npm Introduction

npm Introduction

Lessons

Why should I use npm?

npm Setup

npm Setup

Lessons

Install Node and npm Check Node and npm version Create a package.json file – npm

npm Local Packages

npm Local Packages

Lessons

Install package locally – npm Run a local package – npm Update a local package – npm Uninstall a local package – npm

npm Global Packages

npm Global Packages

Lessons

Install package globally – npm List global packages – npm Update a global package – npm Uninstall a global package – npm

npm Extra

npm Extra

Lessons

Learn more about a command – npm Using npm with Git

Next Steps

After taking this course, you can take our Less course.