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Download the latest version of an npm package to a specified directory
npm install --save download-package
Here's how you would install the latest version of browserify
into a packages
folder:
const downloadPkg = require('download-package')
downloadPkg('browserify', `${__dirname}/packages`)
.then(() => console.log('do other stuff'))
.catch(() => console.log('there was an error downloading the package'))
Notes for the above example:
./packages
) must exist before running downloadPkg
browserify
package files will be stored in ./packages/browserify
browserify
package can be 'required' like any
other package: require('./packages/browserify')
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Download a package from the npm registry into any folder
The npm package download-package receives a total of 9 weekly downloads. As such, download-package popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that download-package demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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