Node and npm

Before we look at Gulp I want to look at Node and npm first. Like I said, a lot of the problems I've encountered have actually been more easily solved once I understood, after understanding what Gulp is built on. So that means understanding how Node and npm can be used to run and automate tasks.

Let's set up our project for Node using npm init. From the root of our mastering-sass-swag run:

npm init

This will then ask you to fill in a series of fields which npm uses to generate the package.json file. Those fields and what you should type are as follows:

name: mastering-sass-swag 
version: 1.0.0 
description: Front-end for Mastering Sass Swag 
entry point: index.js 
test command: 
git repository: 
author: Your Name 
license: ISC 

When asked "Is this ok? (yes)", hit Enter to accept. If you made any mistakes, or you want to change something, you can always open up package.json and make your modifications there. In fact, open up package.json...