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<h1>npm <a href="../api/init.html">init</a></h1> <p>Interactively create a package.json file</p>
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<h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
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<pre><code>npm.commands.init(args, callback)
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</code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p>This will ask you a bunch of questions, and then write a package.json for you.</p>
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<p>It attempts to make reasonable guesses about what you want things to be set to,
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and then writes a package.json file with the options you've selected.</p>
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<p>If you already have a package.json file, it'll read that first, and default to
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the options in there.</p>
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<p>It is strictly additive, so it does not delete options from your package.json
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without a really good reason to do so.</p>
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<p>Since this function expects to be run on the command-line, it doesn't work very
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well as a programmatically. The best option is to roll your own, and since
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JavaScript makes it stupid simple to output formatted JSON, that is the
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preferred method. If you're sure you want to handle command-line prompting,
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then go ahead and use this programmatically.</p>
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<h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2>
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<p><a href="../files/package.json.html">package.json(5)</a></p>
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