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Impress your colleagues with these NPM tricks

Piero Borrelli on May 13, 2019

Just like anyone else, developers enjoy knowing some little tricks to show to their colleagues or friends. Today, I have decided to write about s...

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Nick Taylor • May 14 '19

Also, npx. 😎

Peter Kühne

Jan 10 '18

With the latest version of node, you can just do npx mocha instead of having to add ./node_modules/.bin/ to your PATH.

Ren • May 15 '19

Nice - repo will come in handy I'm sure.
npm outdated is another good one I use a lot! Gives you a table of installed and latest versions of your packages.

Júlio Campos • May 21 '19

And you can use nom outdated -g to see global packages.

PS.: It's broken in some versions of NPM, so update your NPM.

Robin Kretzschmar • May 15 '19

Thanks for the list!
npm repo and npm home was new to me and something I will use really often because if we are honest: no one bookmarks the docs of a package, we hit google and hope it is under the top results 😁

Piero Borrelli • May 16 '19

glad to hear it will speed up your workflow!

Qrzy • May 20 '19

Many thanks for repo, TIL :)

I'd add ci and outdated. ;)

Eugenio Arosteguy • May 23 '19

The -S param is still needed for confuse and impress your colleagues

Adrian Mejia • May 16 '19

Oh, I didn't know about npm version patch and npm t. Very cool!
I wonder if you can run other scripts when bumping the version of a package (like publishing it to npm automatically and generating the changelog)

Oscar • May 21 '19

I use np for publishing.

github.com/sindresorhus/np

Adrian Mejia • May 24 '19

Oh, this is a live saver! Thanks for sharing it :)

Matthew Orndoff • Sep 11 '19 • Edited

npx npkill is a great one to free up hard drive space. Searches your system for node_modules directories, displays their sizes, and allows you to quickly delete them.

Sherlock • May 16 '19

Thanks for your blog to teach us so many tricky things, May I ask how you make those pictures?

Piero Borrelli • May 16 '19

Thank you so much for your words, I use an online tool called carbon.now.sh/. You can use it to make cool code images and set the color, background etc.