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Kevin McNamara
7,483 PointsInstall Express and package.json
I'm looking in Finder and I've noticed that every time that I run
npm install express --save
my computer creates about 10 package.json files. I'm curious - does anyone know why this is? Thanks!
1 Answer
miikis
44,957 PointsWell, Express has dependencies of its own and it's dependencies have their own dependencies and so on... It needs to install those dependencies in order to perform it's function. Frankly, I'm surprised it's only 10... sure you're counting that right?