What is "npm install" ?

[miguelmartins17]

I apologize for asking what "npm install" is?

[miguelmartins17]

I've been reading the project and the term is not explained. And I was thinking for people who want to learn it would be important to have all the terms or abbreviations properly explained even in notes so that we can leave them more elucidated.

[gabrielperales]

@miguelmartins17 npm is the Node Package Manager. In frontend development is common to have a package.json with all your javascript dependencies. In this case npm install will install these dependencies https://github.com/dwyl/learn-elm/blob/master/package.json#L5-L7 which contains the Elm platform.

[papamarfo]

@miguelmartins17 npm install is a command that you run from a command-line/terminal to install a package or dependencies for a project.