Dependency Management with npm

Housekeeping

• Early dismissal at noon
• Tentative CPNT 201 Assignment Schedule
  • Assignments to be announced next week

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1. Introduction to Node and npm

Materials

• Video: NPM Crash Course by Traversy Media
• An introduction to the npm package manager
• Where does npm install the packages?
• Semantic Versioning using npm

Slides: Node and npm

Demo

• Installing an existing lodash project

2. First-time setup and initializing a project

Materials

• Anatomy of a package.json File on Digital Ocean
• The package.json guide

Breakout Activity

In pairs, follow the steps in the following Gist for first-time setup and initializing your first project.

• Gist: npm - Initialize a new project

3. Practice: Installing packages

Materials

• Activity: Installing an existing lodash project
• Activity: Install DayJS from scratch

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Prep

Software

• Install Node

NPM Basics

• Video: NPM Crash Course by Traversy Media
• An introduction to the npm package manager
• Where does npm install the packages?
• Semantic Versioning using npm

package.json

• Anatomy of a package.json File on Digital Ocean
• The package.json guide