What's New in
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npm reports ~125 billion monthly downloads and ~700 CLI contributors and ships weekly. npm@7 is GA and npm@7 GA upgrades package-lock to a new schema, installs peer dependencies by default and adds workspace support. The CLI now includes peer deps installed by default, workspaces with ws/workspace flags for running lifecycle commands across packages, and new commands npm diff npm explain npm exec plus benchmarks showing install performance improvements after resolving extra installs. Registry protocol, overrides and publish prompts are queued.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:30What's new in npm?
- 1:07What does npm do? -123.6 billion monthly package downloads
- 3:00What has changed? npm v7 released Became "latest" in January, 2021
- 3:30Let's dive in...
- 4:55npm explain | npm why
- 6:04npm exec | npx
- 6:32npm audit
- 7:19npm diff
- 7:55package-lock.json v2
- 8:45Where we are with Performance
- 10:55npm install
- 15:29How to Get Involved...
