Useful npm commands for web developers

npm(Node Package Manager) is the best command-line tool for web developers to manage node packages for JavaScript projects. The following article provides all the useful and required npm commands for the developers.

🚀 Initialize npm

npm init

🛠️ Install a npm package

npm install <package_name>

❌ Remove the node_modules folder

Using the following command, you can easily remove the older node_modules folder from the project directory. To run this command, please make sure you are at the project root directory.

rm -rf node_modules

🧹 Clear npm cache

You can force the Node package manager to clean up the cache by using the following command.

npm cache clean --force