http://tech.saigonist.com/taxonomy/term/127/all en http://tech.saigonist.com/b/code/what-packagejson <span class="submitted-by">March 18, 2016</span><div class="field_tags"><span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/nodejs">node.js</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/javascript">javascript</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/npm">npm</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/json">json</a></span> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>If you're looking at some JavaScript code you got from elsewhere, probably Node.js packages, you'll notice each has a file called 'package.json'. This will be in the module's base or root directory. This file is a sort of manifest file for the module, most likely an <em>npm</em> module/package. Any package listed at npmjs.com needs a package.json, and the absolute minimum the file should contain is the package's name and version. The name and version make up a unique key for the package within npmjs.</p> <p>The file usually contains much more than name and version. You can guess by the...</p></div></div></div> Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:09:24 +0000 tomo 80 at http://tech.saigonist.com