Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

Introducing MEVN Chapter 1

main: This is the primary entry point used to look for the package. Basically, it is

a file path, so when a user installs this package, it knows where to start looking

for the modules.

scripts: This field consists of commands that can be run for various states in the

application. It has a key-value pair. The key is the event at which the command

should be run and the value is the actual command.

author/contributors: The author and contributors are the people. It contains an

identifier of the person. An author is a single person, whereas contributors can be

a group of people.

license: The license field, when provided, makes it easy for the users to use our

package. This helps in identifying the permissions and restrictions when using

the package.

Creating a package.json file

We can manually create a package.json file and specify the options ourselves, or we can

use a command to create it interactively from the command prompt.

Let's go ahead and initialize a sample application with a package.json using npm.

First, create a folder in your projects directory using the command:

$ mkdir testproject

To create a package.json file, run the following command in the application that we

created:

$ npm init