Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use a package manager to handle everything related to packages. You’ve leveraged the default npm command-line utility. You got in touch with the most important alternatives, Yarn and pnpm. You should know what Yarn brings to the table – after all, PnP and zero-installs are neat features. Furthermore, you checked out some alternatives and learned about custom registries and repository task runners such as Turborepo.

At this point, you have everything to clone and run existing Node.js projects. You can install new dependencies, check for outdated dependencies, and update them. This gives you the power to integrate all of the over-a-million packages that have been published over the years in the npm registry.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how different flavors of JavaScript, such as more modern specifications or languages that use JavaScript as a compilation target, can be used in Node.js.