Package Management with NPM

Soon after the creation of Node.js, it became apparent that something was missing to orchestrate code sharing and reuse through modules. So npm (Node Package Manager) was born in 2010. It is still the standard package manager for the Node ecosystem, even if it is being challenged by yarn, a more recent alternative. It consists of a command-line client, also called npm, and an online database of public packages called the npm registry and accessed by the client.