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Node Web Development - Second Edition

Node Web Development - Second Edition

By : David Herron
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Node Web Development - Second Edition

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Node Web Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Node package manager


As described in Chapter 2, Setting up Node, npm is a package management and distribution system for Node. It has become the de-facto standard for distributing modules (packages) for use with Node. Conceptually it's similar to tools like apt-get (Debian), rpm/yum (Red Hat/Fedora), MacPorts (Mac OS X), CPAN (Perl), or PEAR (PHP). Its purpose is publishing and distributing Node packages over the Internet using a simple command-line interface. With npm you can quickly find packages to serve specific purposes, download them, install them, and manage packages you've already installed.

The npm package defines a package format for Node largely based on the CommonJS package specification. It uses the same package.json file that's supported natively by Node, but with additional fields to build in additional functionality.

The npm package format

An npm package is a directory structure with a package.json file describing the package. This is exactly what we just referred to as a complex...

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