NPM Cheat Sheet
===
(Full description and list of commands at - https://npmjs.org/doc/index.html)

##List of less common (however useful) NPM commands


######Install a package and also update package.json with the installed version and package name.

```
npm install <module-name> --save
```

######Install a package and also update package.json with the installed version and package name, but into the devDependencies section.

```
npm install <module-name> --save-dev
```

######Set --save as a default for ```npm install ```.

```
npm config set save true
```

######Generate package.json in a module directory, based on npm parmaters.

```
npm init
```


######List all npm configuration flags.

```
npm config ls -l
```


######Install a version not from a git repository and not from the npm directory, for example:

```
npm install git://github.com/substack/node-browserify.git
````

######Update the global npm version.

```
npm update npm -g
```

######Display the readme.md / documentation / npmjs.orf page of a give library.

```
npm docs <module-name>
```

######Run package test suite, based on setup in package.json in:
 
``` "scripts" : {"test" : "node testfile.js"} ```
 

```
npm test
```

######Uninstall package (A nice thing about npm is you can always just ```rm -rf ./node_modules/<module_name>```).

```
npm uninstall <module_name>
```

######Locally edit a dependency.

```
npm edit <module_name>
```

######Setup editor for ```npm edit ``` :

```
npm config set editor "sublime"
```

######Publish a package not under the default "latest" tag:

```
npm publish --tag beta
```

######List outdated libraries compared to currently installe node_modules:

```
npm outdated
```

######Lock down dependency versions:

```
npm shrinkwrap
```

#####Install a git specific release

```
npm install git://github.com/Marak/colors.js#v0.6.0
```