To open the package manager, from Solution Explorer, right-click the npm node in your project.
Then you can use package.json to modify and delete packages. The best time to npm init is after you’ve added a Git remote to your project.Starting in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4, the npm package manager is available for CLI-based projects, so you can now download npm modules similarly to the way you download NuGet packages for ASP.NET Core projects. This way, you can copy-paste dependencies and other changes you’ve made from the original package.json file to the newly generated one. If you run npm init now, it will generate the three properties I mentioned above.īefore you run npm init, make sure you rename your original package.json file to something else. You’ll want these links for better discoverability. They let people move to your project’s Github page easily from the npm page. These three properties will be displayed as metadata on the right side of the project’s npm page. A homepage property that links to the readme.md file.A bugs property with a link to the issues page.A repository property with a link to your remote repo.If you npm init after you have added a Git remote, npm will generate three extra things in your package.json files. In other words, you should only npm init after you have completed the following commands: The best time to npm init (for an open source project) is after you added a Git remote to your project. If you npm init right after creating and navigating into the project, you’ll miss out a few things. Once we npm init, we can begin downloading (and saving) our dependencies.īut if you’re creating an open source project, the best time to npm init is slightly later. It makes sense to npm init at the start of the project because we use npm to download dependencies. Most developers run npm init right after creating and navigating into a new project.
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