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How to Initiate a Node.js Project

Before running npm install in a brand-new project folder, you need to initialize it first. Run npm init -y to generate a default package.json file - without it, npm has nowhere to record your dependencies.

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npm init -y
Creates a package.json with default values, skipping the interactive prompts, so npm has a place to track your project's dependencies.