By the end of this, developers should be able to:
- Find an NPM package that solves a common problem.
- Write a script that uses an NPM package.
- Fork and clone this repository.
- Install dependencies with
npm install.
- Node modules
- Modules available through NPM
- Ruby was really convenient for list processing
- How can we do something similar in Node?
Find the most popular packages on NPM and note, in your own words, three of the packages. Questions to consider while you research:
- What problem does this package solve?
- How can I use this package in my own code? What steps are involved?
- How well maintained is this package? What criteria did I use to decide?
Take your randomizer script from ga-wdi-boston/node-api. Change it to use packages from NPM. You will need to identify what code you want to replace with a package and then find an appropriate package using Google or the NPM registry.
Here are a few things you might try:
- Use
lodashto iterate through collections. - Find a randomizer package to randomly sort an array.
- Find a package to colorize terminal output and make your output pretty.
- Decorate your output with emojis!
Careful when using packages in your font-end projects. Some of them are very large!
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