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Luke Puplett
Luke Puplett

Reputation: 45263

npm init - What on Earth are the questions asking?

I'm struggling to learn all the strange JavaScript front-end tools. I'm a Microsoft guy so I'm used to being very highly-productive at the expense of knowing cool JavaScript tools or rocking a hipster beard.

I think I need to initialize NPM in my project with npm init but its asking questions with single words and I haven't the faintest clue what to respond, the docs don't even mention the questions.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init

So what do I put for name: and version: and any others that might be asked next?

Thanks!!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2083

Answers (1)

alwe
alwe

Reputation: 1497

npm init is for creating a new package.json with npm.

npm install is for installing all dependencies.

The question is, why do you think you need to npm init - when you do not know which name your project has.

If you want to create a new project, add the name of the project and the version - for example 0.0.1. Use semantic versioning for this, see http://semver.org/ .

The name is the name of your project. The version is the version of your project and if its a private app, then you can just put 1.0.0 in and leave it; its more for libraries you may be intending to add to a shared package repository.

Upvotes: 3

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