What does the npm -i flag mean?

Question

What\'s does the \"i\" flag do in npm?

I saw it used like this:

npm i backbone.marionette

I looked in the npm documentation and searched fo

Answer 1

The i is npm-install alias which is mentioned in https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install.

You can use it with all npm-install flags. For example below will install angular-js amd live server by using npm i

npm i angular2@2.0.0-alpha.45 --save --save-exact
npm i live-server --save-dev