npm

npm is the package manager for Node.js (a JavaScript runtime environment) and the world’s largest software registry (more than 600k packages) with approximately 3 billion downloads per week.

You can use npm to:

• Adapt packages to your apps, or incorporate them as they are.

• Download standalone tools you can use right away.

• Run packages without downloading using npx.

• Share code with any npm user, anywhere.

• Restrict code to specific developers.

• Form virtual teams (orgs).

• Manage multiple versions of code and code dependencies.

• Update applications easily when underlying code is updated.

• Discover multiple ways to solve the same puzzle.

• Find other developers who are working on similar problems.

package.json

The command npm init in your project folder opens an interactive dialogue to establish a npm project. The result is the package.json including all important settings, scripts and dependencies of your project.

{
  "name": "name_of_your_package",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "This is just a test",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "http://github.com/yourname/name_of_your_package.git"
  },
  "author": "your_name",
  "license": "ISC"
}

Please check the npm docs for further information.

Install packages with npm

The most common way to install new packages with npm is via the CLI. To install a package simply type:

npm install packagename

You find the installed packages in the node_modules subfolder.

Node version manager NVM

• bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
• See here

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
nvm i v14

Restart the Terminal

nvm use v14

Adjusting the number of files beeing monitored by the system

• By default the system monitors a specific number of files
• If this number is beeing reached, the executed command will fail
• To make sure this doesn't happen, we will exceed the number manually

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p