How to install an npm package from GitHub directly?

Question

Trying to install modules from github results in:

ENOENT error on package.json.

Easily reproduced using express:

Answer 1

You can also do npm install visionmedia/express to install from Github

or

npm install visionmedia/express#branch

There is also support for installing directly from a Gist, Bitbucket, Gitlab, and a number of other specialized formats. Look at the npm install documentation for them all.