My npm setup, and useful global packages

npm-setup.md

(See also commands for Node.js development and debugging)

Useful commands

• See all installed global packages:
  npm ls -g --depth=0
• Update npm itself to latest version:
  npm i npm -g

Handy global packages

npm i -g light-server updtr fx npm-check npm-check-updates npm-scripts-tree

• light-server (simple web server with live reload).
  Use it with a script such as:
  "watch": "light-server -s . -w '* # # reload'"
• updtr (update all deps, conditional on checks passing).
  Usage:
  updtr --to latest -s caret -t 'npm t && whaveter && stuff'
• Either npm-check-updates or npm-check (check for unused/old deps, and optionally update them too).
• npm-merge-driver (Git merge driver to automatically solve conflicts in package-lock.json files) (built-in now)
• fx