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npm - create package.json file
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In this short article, we would like to show how to create package.json
file with npm
.
Quick solution (run in the command line in the project directory):
npm init
Note: the command carries user through the steps setting basic configuration.
Usage example
To run npm init
we should create some directory for our new project.
$ mkdir test-project
$ cd test-project
$ npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.
See `npm help init` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.
Use `npm install <pkg>` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.
Press ^C at any time to quit.
package name: (test-project)
version: (1.0.0)
description:
entry point: (index.js)
test command:
git repository:
keywords:
author:
license: (ISC)
About to write to /home/john/Desktop/test-project/package.json:
{
"name": "test-project",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC"
}
Is this OK? (yes)
Result:
$ ls -al
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 john john 4096 lut 22 12:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 john john 4096 lut 22 12:31 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 205 lut 22 12:32 package.json