Using npm
The node package manager npm comes with the Node.js installer. npm is used for the command line; to use it, we will need to run a terminal program (a command prompt).
On Windows, we can use the basic cmd.exe, or alternatively, we can download and install Console from http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/.
On Mac OS X, Terminal.app can be used to run commands.
On Linux, use your favorite terminal. The default on Ubuntu Linux is the gnome terminal.
Open the terminal and type: npm. This command runs npm without any parameters. As a result, npm will print a general usage overview listing the available subcommands.
Installing a local package
Let's create an empty directory for our project named test, navigate to that directory, and install the ...
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