You can manually create a package.json file and put all these information or you can use NPM to create it for you. This file holds information about your project, such as the name of the project, the version of the project, the dependencies or other NodeJS packages your project depends on and many more. Creating a package.json Configuration File with NPM:Įvery NodeJS project has a package.json file in its project’s root directory. If you want to install a different version of Node.js than the one provided in the Debian repositories, you can use this method. With debian, use the install script: apt update & apt install sudo curl & curl -sL. It can only be accessed from that project. Comparison to the alternative NVM and command options are at SO. This installs the n package which you can use to switch NodeJS-Versions and uses it. If you install a NodeJS package locally, then a directory node_modules/ should be created on your project directory and the package should be saved in node_modules/ directory relative to your project directory. If you want to update inside npm, you can use the n command: sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n stable sudo npm install npmlatest. If you install a NodeJS package globally, then it should be saved somewhere /usr/lib/node_modules directory and you can access it from any NodeJS project.

Before that, let’s talk about global packages and local packages. In this section, I will show you how to use NPM to manager NodeJS modules or packages. As you can see NPM is installed correctly as well.

Debian install npm