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If you’re a front-end or a JavaScript developer, you’re surely using npm. npm<\/a> is a registry where people publish their software. At the beginning, developers used npm to share JavaScript libraries and frameworks, but today you can also find CSS frameworks, font icons, and much more. In addition to being a registry, npm has also its own client that allows you to manage the dependency of a project. Through the npm client, you can install, update, delete packages published on the npm registry and not only.<\/p>\n

In this article, I’ll discuss some of the less known npm commands that I use the most.
\n<\/p>\n

\"npm\"<\/p>\n

List globally installed packages<\/h2>\n

Often I find myself wondering what npm packages I have globally installed on a machine. The command to find the name of the globally installed packages and their version is the following:<\/p>\n

\r\nnpm list -g --depth=0\r\n<\/pre>\n
Remove unused packages from the node_modules folder<\/h2>\n
When working on a new project, you may try different packages before choosing the one that works best for you. So, you might end up having your node_modules folder filled with packages (and their dependencies) that you aren’t using anymore. To clean up the node_modules folder and claim some space back, you can use the command:<\/p>\n
\r\nnpm prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
Find outdated packages<\/h2>\n
Any project that is under development for more than a week will eventually use a version of one or more packages that isn’t up to date. To check if there are newer versions of the packages declared in your package.json file, you can run the command:<\/p>\n
\r\nnpm outdated\r\n<\/pre>\n
The result will be something like this:<\/p>\n
\"npm<\/p>\n
Conclusions<\/h2>\n
The npm client is the first and most used client available for the npm registry. In addition to the usual install<\/code>, search<\/code>, and test<\/code>, the npm client offers many other interesting commands. In this article, I’ve introduced you to some of the less known npm commands that I find very useful, that is list<\/code>, prune<\/code>, and outdated<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you’re a front-end or a JavaScript developer, you’re surely using npm. npm<\/a> is a registry where people publish their software. At the beginning, it was used to share JavaScript libraries and frameworks, but today you can also find CSS frameworks, font icons, and much more. In addition to being a registry, npm has also its own client that allows to manage the dependency of a project. Through the npm client, you can install, update, delete packages published on the npm registry and not only.<\/p>\n
In this article, I’ll discuss the less known npm commands I use the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,68],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-javascript","tag-javascript","tag-npm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/npm-logo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Or4e-9S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":329,"url":"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/resources-beginner-front-end-developers\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":0},"title":"Resources for Beginner Front-end Developers","author":"Aurelio De Rosa","date":"September 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Few weeks ago I received an email from a developer asking me for suggestions on how to delve into the front-end world. 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