# A Little About NPM

## What’s NPM

NPM ( Node Package Manager ) is the official package manager for Node.js or in python you can call this it PIP

## Its use

* Installing libraries or packages from outside
    
* Manage dependencies ( library required by the project )
    
* Provides a registry at npmjs.com
    

## Standar Project

Project Node.js usually have file ‘ package.json ‘ for configuration center

## Step by step

* First you can open terminal or git bash and choose your location to study or create a new folder, for example i want to create folder for project in future
    
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* Write 'npm init -y' to initialize npm if you have downloaded node.js otherwise you can read my other article about installing node.js, ‘npm init -y‘ for simple initialize and ‘npm init‘ for initialization and full configuration package.
    
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* config your npm like this
    
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    ls for check the content into folder
    
    add `“type“ : “module“,` after “main“, and don’t forget comma, and remove content in script and write `“start“: “node index.js“` like this.
    
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* create file input.js and follow me
    
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* create more file index.js
    
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* you can try the code by writing `npm start`
    
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    This is an error, if you get an error like me, you can open a terminal and run the code there, this error is caused by an error in the terminal MINGW64
    
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