Familiarising myself with npm's package.json specification

package.json.js

{
	//-----------------------------------------------------------
	// Important information
	
	// Name and version are required and together are treated as
	// a unique identifier for a particular build. Name
	// [http://npmjs.org/doc/json.html#name] and version
	// [http://npmjs.org/doc/json.html#version] are strings.
	"name": "mypackage",
	"version": "0.1",
	
	// Meta information for the package. Description is a string,
	// keywords should be an array of strings.
	"description": "This is my package.",
	"keywords": [ "my", "package" ],
	
	//-----------------------------------------------------------
	// People
	
	// The principal or initial author of the package. The email
	// and URL are both optional.
	"author": {
		"name": "My Name",
		"email": "[email protected]",
		"url": "http://myname.com/"
	},
	
	// An array of contributors to the package.
	"contributors": [
		{
			"name": "Other Name",
			"email": "[email protected]",
			"url": "http://othername.com/"
		},
		{
			"name": "Yet Another Name",
			"email": "[email protected]",
			"url": "http://yetanothername.com/"
		}
	],
	
	//-----------------------------------------------------------
	// URLs and Resources
	
	// The project home page.
	"homepage": "http://mypackage.com/",
	
	// The URL to the package issue tracker and/or email address
	// for bug reports. This can be a string (URL) or an object
	// with `url` and `email` fields.
	"bugs": "http://github.com/myname/mypackage/issues",
	// or
	"bugs": {
		"url": "http://github.com/myname/mypackage/issues",
		"email": "[email protected]"
	},
	
	// The repository where the code for this package lives.
	"repository": {
		"type": "git",
		"url" : "https://github.com/myname/mypackage.git"
	},
	
	//-----------------------------------------------------------
	// Scripts
	
	// The main entry-point for your program - used in node's
	// `require`. This should be a module.
	"main": "./lib/mypackage.js",
	
	// Executables for the package. These will be symlinked into
	// a directory onto the system path.
	"bin": {
		"mypackage": "./bin/mypackage.js"
	},
	
	// Manual files for the package.
	"man": [
		"./man/doc.1"
	],
	
	// Indicate the structure of the package.
	"directories": {
		"bin": "./bin",
		"lib": "./lib",
		"man": "./man"
	},
	
	// Package scripts. See http://npmjs.org/doc/scripts.html
	// for info on all of the package scripts available.
	"scripts": {
		
		// If the package provides a server, these are the
		// scripts used to start, stop and restart the server.
		// used to start it.
		"start": "node server.js",
		"stop": "",
		"restart": "",
		
		// Test the package.
		"test": "myunittester ./test/*"
		
	},
	
	// Package dependencies. See
	// http://npmjs.org/doc/json.html#dependencies for details
	// on how to specify dependency versions.
	"dependencies": {
		"myusefullibrary": ">=1.0",
		"myotherpackage": "2.3"
	},
	
	// Package development dependencies. This should be used to
	// indicate packages which are required for things like
	// testing or documentation generation.
	"devDependencies": {
		"myunittester": "1.2.3"
	},
	
	// The versions of Node and npm that the package depends on.
	"engines": {
		"node" : ">=0.1.2"
	},
	
	// The package is primarily used globally - if this is true
	// then the user will be warned while installing locally.
	"preferGlobal": true,
	
	// The package should never be published to npm.
	"private": true
	
	//-----------------------------------------------------------
	
}

So how'd it go? Did you ever get familiar with package.jsons? 😆

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