NPM 5 is much faster than NPM 4!!! 647% performance improvement.
npx – run things in npm packages without installing stuff globally
npx create-choo-app my-choo-app
Allows you to tell it to work in offline mode to reinstall packages from a warm npm cache instead of downloading from the internet
Automatically install and remove dependencies based on require/import in your JS repo
npa – frontend asset manager (similar to bower), run things on publish instead of commit to git, use package.json for manifest
Check out package.community for bundler, yarn, npm, etc
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