In the last chapter, we began looking at Node and NPM, and you even built a quick Node-based web server to demonstrate the concepts. I said then that you now have the basics you’d need in both things to start working on some apps. But, before we get to that, let’s look at them both in just a little more detail.
Since Node got the pole position in the last chapter, let’s flip the script for this one and give NPM the head start this time out of the gate (yeesh, how many metaphors can be mixed in one sentence?!).