How add commands to cygwin - npm

Question

I use cygwin on windows 8.1 to have an Unix shell. But I cannot run commands such as npm from it.

What should I do to do it? Add some kind of env var to cygwin? Why

Answer 1

How to make cygwin work with npm command

1. install http://nodejs.org/#download
2. download http://nodejs.org/dist/npm/
3. extract npm.zip into node.exe
4. run cygwin terminal again

That is it!