Thursday, 30 March, 2023 UTC


Summary

NPM is the default package manager for Node.js. It’s been the sidekick for Node.js for the past 10 years and comes pre-bundled with it. At the time of writing, npm is the world’s largest software registry with over 800,000 packages published and used by developers. However, npm is not just a place to publish Node packages but also provides developers with a feature-rich command line tool to install, manage and update from its hundreds and thousands of Node packages in its registry. In this article, we’ll be differentiating between two npm commands namely npm install and npm update, and learn…