Installing and running Node.js bin scripts

The package.json property "bin" lets an npm package specify which shell scripts it provides (for more information, see “Creating ESM-based shell scripts for Unix and Windows with Node.js”). If we install such a package, Node.js ensures that we can access these shell scripts (so-called bin scripts) from a command line. In this blog post, we explore two ways of installing packages with bin scripts: Locally installing a package with bin scripts means installing it as a dependency inside a package...

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