You watch a colleague coding, there’s a shorthand or trick being applied, somehow you’re not familiar with it and your mind blows away. Happens to all of us all the time.

In this short post we will unveil some very useful npm tricks. There are many more than what we can cover here, so I chose to focus on those that are most relevant and useful for our day-to-day workflow as developers.

Basic shorthands before we’re getting started

To get everyone aligned, especially the newcomers among us, let’s have a quick overview of the basic shorthands and make sure nobody miss anything trivial.

Installing a package:

Regular: npm install…

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It’s interesting to try and understand why are those companies so interested in open source projects, is this really because they want to contribute to the community, which is the general idea of open source?

I think that it’s not only interesting to understand but in fact it’s also very important. Companies, unlike humans, are very rational…

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