Package manager
The second-to-last tool is also one that you will use most of the time; npm (https://www.npmjs.com) is the official package manager for Node.js. With npm, and through the official npm registry, you will have access to more than 1,000,000 packages, and the numbers keep rising. Hopefully, though, you'll probably need a bit less than that to create your applications!
So why would you need a package manager? If you have experience with any widespread ecosystem, then you'll probably be familiar with a few already: NuGet for .NET, Groovy and Maven for Java, Composer for PHP, and pip for Python. You name it. If not, then here's a short introduction. The basic idea of package management is very straightforward; your projects have ...
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