npm WARN install Refusing to install hapi as a dependency of itself

Question

I tried to do the following (per instructions from official site):

• mkdir hapi && cd hapi
• npm init
• npm

Answer 1

The issue can be simply explained as follows the name of your package or module in package.json cannot be same as that of the package or module you are trying to install.

Here hapi is the name of your module and you are trying to install a module with name hapi with npm install hapi --save