There are many more things your package manager might be capable of. Package Managers differ based on packaging system but same packaging system may have more than one package manager. For DEB, you have apt-get, aptitude command line based package managers. Package managers are not necessarily command line based. You have graphical package managing tools like Synaptic. But it will deviate from the objective of the topic which is to give you a basic understanding of package manager in Linux.
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If a package A suggests another package B, then package B provides functionality that may enhance A, but is not needed in most cases. For instance, the kmail package suggests the gnupg package, which contains encryption software that can be used by KMail. If a package A conflicts with another package B, then the two packages cannot be installed at the same time. For instance, fb-music-hi conflicts with fb-music-low because they provide alternate sets of music for the game Frozen Bubble.
The job of a package manager is to present an interface which assists the user in managing the collection of packages installed on his or her system. A project dependency can be an entire JavaScript library or framework — such as React or Vue — or a very small utility like our human-readable date library, or it can be a command line tool such as Prettier or eslint, which we talked about in previous articles.
In addition, what happens if you find a better tool that you want to use instead of the current one, or a new version of your dependency is released that you want to update to? This is not too painful for a couple of dependencies, but in larger projects with many dependencies this kind of thing can become really challenging to keep track of. It makes more sense to use a package manager such as npm, as this will guarantee that the code is added and removed cleanly, as well as a host of other advantages.
We've met npm already, but stepping back from npm itself, a package manager is a system that will manage your project dependencies.
The package manager will provide a method to install new dependencies also referred to as "packages" , manage where packages are stored on your file system, and offer capabilities for you to publish your own packages. In theory you may not need a package manager and you could manually download and store your project dependencies, but a package manager will seamlessly handle installing and uninstalling packages.
If you didn't use one, you'd have to manually handle:. In addition, package managers handle duplicate dependencies something that becomes important and common in front-end development. In the case of npm and JavaScript- and Node-based package managers you have two options for where you install your dependencies. As we touched on in the previous article, dependencies can be installed globally or locally to your project.
Although there tend to be more pros for installing globally, the pros for installing locally are more important — such as code portability and version locking.
For example, if your project relied on Webpack with a certain configuration, you'd want to ensure that if you installed that project on another machine or returned to it much later on, the configuration would still work. If a different version of Webpack was installed, it may not be compatible. To mitigate this dependencies are installed locally to a project. To see local dependencies really shine, all you need to do is try to download and run an existing project — if it works and all the dependencies work right out of the box, then you have local dependencies to thank for the fact that the code is portable.
Note: npm is not the only package manager available. A successful and popular alternative package manager is Yarn. Yarn resolves the dependencies using a different algorithm that can mean a faster user experience. There are also a number of other emerging clients, such as pnpm. For a package manager to work, it needs to know where to install packages from, and this comes in the form of a package registry. The registry is a central place that a package is published to and thus can be installed from.
The npm registry exists at npmjs. You could manage your own package registry — products like Microsoft Azure allow you to create proxies to the npm registry so you can override or lock certain packages , GitHub also offers a package registry service , and there will be likely more options appearing as time goes on. What is important is that you ensure you've chosen the best registry for you. Parcel is a nother tool that developers commonly use in their development process. Parcel is clever in that it can watch the contents of our code for calls to dependencies and automatically installs any dependencies it sees that our code needs.
It can also automatically build our code. In our previous chapter we installed Prettier as a global tool. We'll install it as part of an experimental app. Next, let's initialise our app as an npm package, which creates a config file — package.
Type the following command, making sure you are inside the parcel-experiment directory:. You will now be asked some questions; npm will then create a default package.
Go into your parcel-experiment directory and you should now find you've got a package. Open it up and it should look something like this:.
Once that's done All The Things , we're now ready for some "modern client-side development" which really means using build tools to make the developer experience a little easier. First of all however, take another look at your package.
Java is the only one of these examples where you cannot simply add your own packages to the main repository. Approved repository hosting services such as Sonatype Nexus OSS must vet and agree to host your package on their platform. In terms of choosing one over the other, for existing applications it is likely Maven is already integrated and moving over to Gradle would have considerable overhead.
However, Gradle is less verbose, immediately speeds up builds and will likely continue to increase in popularity. Linking your GitHub repository with npm also allows you to create and share your own projects. As the npm online repository is so large and diverse, JavaScript front-end and Node. Furthermore, Composer allows imports to be used traditionally from a server endpoint or simply from running scripts via the command line interchangeably.
Try creating a project, import some dependencies and use them! You will quickly realise the importance of re-usable packages outside of the built-in scope and see how simply you can make use of them via package management.
Finally, if you feel comfortable using packages and find yourself programming something others might find useful, create your own!
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