Recalling NPM Commands to Your Heart's Content

Who doesn't love a decent package for development purposes? These packages come of so many usual and unusual variations just to match with your desired requirements. And to keep you running them we got just what you need! Enjoy the show fellow devs:

NPM Commands

npm version checking

npm -v

To find out usages of npm

npm help

To find out ways of installing individual npm files

npm install -h

To create package.json file

npm init

To create package.json file without typing out anything else

npm init --yes

or,

npm init -y

To set package.json defaults

npm config set init-author-name "name"

or,

npm set init-license "name"

To install a specific package

npm install "package_name"

or,

npm i "package_name"

To install a specific package just for development and not for production

npm install "package_name" --save-dev

or,

npm i "package_name" -D

To uninstall a package

npm uninstall "name"

To install a package globally

npm install "package_name" -g

To uninstall a package globally

npm uninstall "package_name" -g

To list down installed packages

npm list

To install a specific version of package

npm install "package_name@version"

For Example - 3.4.1, here 3 is major version, 4 is minor version and 1 is patch version number

To update a specific package

npm install "package_name@latest"

To remove any packages not listed in package.json

npm prune