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One Tip a Week: Set some defaults for npm init -y
This week’s tip of the week is for npm. You can create a new project using npm init -y
(see npm init docs on npm) to initialize a package.json with the default values.
Whenever I’ve run this in the past, my name and email were not part of the defaults. I naively though it’d pick up my git info for some reason. 🙃
That said, you probably have a global git configuration for your name and email. If you want to copy those as defaults for npm when you run npm init -y
, you can run the following commands once.
npm config set init-author-name "$(git config user.name)" --global
npm config set init-author-email "$(git config user.email)" --global
You can also set defaults for the license and version number. Out of the box npm uses the ISC license and version 1.0.0
. I wanted to default to MIT
and 0.1.0
, so I ran the following:
npm config set init-license MIT --global
npm config set init-version "0.1.0" --global
The next time you run npm init -y
, boom! You have your desired defaults.
❯ npm init -y
Wrote to /Users/nicktaylor/package.json:
{
"name": "cool-project",
"version": "0.1.0",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "Nick Taylor <[email protected]>",
"license": "MIT",
"description": ""
}
That’s it! Short and sweet. Until the next one!