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Learning Node.js Development
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Learning Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
January 2018
Beginner
658 pages
13h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating projects using npm modules

Now, in the npm packages, there's nothing magical, it's regular Node code that aims to solve a specific problem. The reason you'd want to use it is so you don't have to spend all your time writing these utility functions that already exist; not only do they exist, they've been tested, they've been proven to work, and others have used them and documented them.

Now, with all that said, how do we get started? Well, to get started, we actually have to run a command from the Terminal to tell our application we want to use npm modules. This command will be run over in the Terminal. Make sure you've navigated inside your project folder and inside the notes-node directory. Now, when you installed Node, you also ...

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