NPM – the Node.js package manager
Node.js by itself is a pretty basic system, being a JavaScript interpreter with a few interesting asynchronous I/O libraries. One of the things that make Node.js interesting is the rapidly growing ecosystem of third-party modules for Node.js. At the center of that ecosystem is NPM. The modules can be downloaded as source and assembled manually for use with Node.js programs. NPM gives us a simpler way; NPM is the de-facto standard package manager for Node.js and it greatly simplifies downloading and using these modules. We will talk about NPM at length in the next chapter.
The sharp-eyed will have noticed that npm is already installed via all the installation methods discussed previously. In the past, npm was installed ...
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