NPM is a DOS command, I think released by the NODE group. I think it’s an installation tool for programmers. I use it to install programs on my computer.
For example I was looking for a typescript definition file for google analytics. I found this website: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/google.analytics. It gave me an npm command to install it. it went something like this:
1 | cd \d\dev\node_modules |
what it did was created a folder named
\d\dev\node_modules\google.analytics
and placed the files I needed.
npm –version
This gives you the version of npm you are running.
npm install -g npm@latest
installs the latest version of node.js