npm

What do you like best?

I love NPM because it allows you to import over libraries to keep your project organized. It's directly integrated within the command line and runs on Node, so there aren't any additional apps or software needed to implement it. I also love that you can manage your project by keeping version control data inside your project, including scripts that can be ran in the command line. I also love installing packages anywhere on one machine with just 1 line in the command line.

What do you dislike?

I dislike that Node Package Manager sometimes doesn't automatically update some conflicting packages. It'll ask you to manually install some when it can easily be done automatically when you run "npm audit fix" would love if the devs add a feature that automatically installs manual installation packages with a "npm audit fix - -force" command.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you're looking for a fast solution to add libraries into your software, i highly recommend using NPM. It will handle most of the heavy work, keep your project organized and streamline your development cycle.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

With NPM we can import packages of code into our projects without recreating features that already exist within the community of opensource software. We love it because we can take these packages anywhere we go when we pull them from repositories. It just takes 1 line in the command line to install the packages and have our program run on a testing environment like any other machine.