From 998d2f30ed9e0f03b0bb934502628138faf8afd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Hyzy Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 04:07:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added few clarifications, updated typos (#28822) --- guide/english/developer-tools/npm/index.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/guide/english/developer-tools/npm/index.md b/guide/english/developer-tools/npm/index.md index 94cdd2d918..5cecc676d1 100644 --- a/guide/english/developer-tools/npm/index.md +++ b/guide/english/developer-tools/npm/index.md @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ title: npm npm is a package manager and is used to install and manage dependencies. -npm is central to the vibrant JavaScript(and specifically the Node.js) community, by making module and code reusability across projects very simple. +npm is central to the vibrant JavaScript (and specifically the Node.js) community, by making module and code reusability across projects very simple. + Currently, npm has upwards of 500,000 available packages. npm is useful not only for server-side projects. Most popular front-end libraries like Bootstrap and Font Awesome are available too. @@ -41,8 +42,8 @@ npm install ``` Running npm install in a project's root directory without a specific package name, installs all the dependencies required for that project. Those are -calculated according to the project's `package.json` file. This demonstrates the power of npm, where a single command can fetch tens or hundreds of -dependencies automatically for you, and is useful when you `git clone` a repository, for example. +calculated according to the project's `package.json` file, therefore it is necessary to make sure that the project's root folder contains it. This demonstrates the power of npm, where a single command can fetch tens or hundreds of +dependencies automatically for you, and is useful when you `git clone` a repository, for example (also, due to this feature local repositories can sometimes take a lot of disk space). #### More Information: * Node.js website: nodejs