npm list -g –depth=0 npm: the Node.js package manager command line tool list -g: display a tree of every package found in the user’s folders (without the -g option it only shows the current directory’s packages) –depth 0 / –depth=0: avoid including every package’s dependencies in the tree view
Needed background on concurrency approaches: Different web servers implement different techniques for handling incoming HTTP requests in parallel. A pretty popular technique is using threads — that is, the web server will create/dedicate a single thread for each incoming request. The Apache HTTP web server supports multiple models for handling requests, one of which (called … Read more
The difference between –save and –save-dev may not be immediately noticeable if you have tried them both on your own projects. So here are a few examples… Let’s say you were building an app that used the moment package to parse and display dates. Your app is a scheduler so it really needs this package … Read more
Use npm list for local packages or npm list -g for globally installed packages. You can find the version of a specific package by passing its name as an argument. For example, npm list grunt will result in: projectName@projectVersion /path/to/project/folder └── grunt@0.4.1 Alternatively, you can just run npm list without passing a package name as … Read more
It used to be a required part of a package (old, pre-3.3 “regular package”, not newer 3.3+ “namespace package”). Here’s the documentation. Python defines two types of packages, regular packages and namespace packages. Regular packages are traditional packages as they existed in Python 3.2 and earlier. A regular package is typically implemented as a directory … Read more