I'm using Composer to manage my PHP dependencies, and would be happy to do the same with my JS dependencies.
I stumbled upon NPM for Node.js, and am wondering if it's supposed to be used as a client-side dependency manager as well.
For example, I might want to manage the client-side library dependencies in my application's /public/vendor/ folder, and install/update these dependencies as I would do with composer install or composer update for PHP.
Is npm for me?
Best Answer
Not directly, though some of the packages you install via npm (e.g. socket.io) will emit client-side Javascript libraries.
There's another tool called Bower which is designed for client-side Libraries. There may be others, but this is the one I've seen mentioned the most. It's used internally by Google's Yeoman tool for the client-side libraries.