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0 pointsaikah10y ago0 comments

When you fetch a package with npm, the package will either be : a library(installed locally) or a command line tool (installed globally). You can also run any number of tasks per project (npm run <task>), described in the npm manifest, or execute tasks before or after installing, and before publishing a library.

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dikaiosune10y ago· 2 in thread

Right, but that doesn't address how you acquire/install/configure npm itself, which is one of the main benefits of having gradlew[.bat].

TheAceOfHearts10y ago

You need to have node installed already. Once it's installed you'll have npm because it's bundled with node.

I googled quickly for gradlew.bat and from the first link I opened it looks like it depends on java being installed already.

Node already includes npm because it's the official package manager. Java doesn't include gradle, presumably because they have multiple options and none of them is considered the official one?

dikaiosune10y ago

I wasn't aware of the implicit "if you have node you have npm" relationship -- thanks for clearing that up.

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