nodejs package.json详细解读

使用 package.json

package.json 位于模块的目录下，用于定义包的属性。接下来让我们来看下 express 包的 package.json 文件，位于 node_modules/express/package.json 内容：

{
  "name": "express",
  "description": "Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework",
  "version": "4.13.3",
  "author": {
    "name": "TJ Holowaychuk",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "contributors": [
    {
      "name": "Aaron Heckmann",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ciaran Jessup",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Douglas Christopher Wilson",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Guillermo Rauch",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonathan Ong",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Roman Shtylman",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Young Jae Sim",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    }
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+https://github.com/strongloop/express.git"
  },
  "homepage": "http://expressjs.com/",
  "keywords": [
    "express",
    "framework",
    "sinatra",
    "web",
    "rest",
    "restful",
    "router",
    "app",
    "api"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "accepts": "~1.2.12",
    "array-flatten": "1.1.1",
    "content-disposition": "0.5.0",
    "content-type": "~1.0.1",
    "cookie": "0.1.3",
    "cookie-signature": "1.0.6",
    "debug": "~2.2.0",
    "depd": "~1.0.1",
    "escape-html": "1.0.2",
    "etag": "~1.7.0",
    "finalhandler": "0.4.0",
    "fresh": "0.3.0",
    "merge-descriptors": "1.0.0",
    "methods": "~1.1.1",
    "on-finished": "~2.3.0",
    "parseurl": "~1.3.0",
    "path-to-regexp": "0.1.7",
    "proxy-addr": "~1.0.8",
    "qs": "4.0.0",
    "range-parser": "~1.0.2",
    "send": "0.13.0",
    "serve-static": "~1.10.0",
    "type-is": "~1.6.6",
    "utils-merge": "1.0.0",
    "vary": "~1.0.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "after": "0.8.1",
    "ejs": "2.3.3",
    "istanbul": "0.3.17",
    "marked": "0.3.5",
    "mocha": "2.2.5",
    "should": "7.0.2",
    "supertest": "1.0.1",
    "body-parser": "~1.13.3",
    "connect-redis": "~2.4.1",
    "cookie-parser": "~1.3.5",
    "cookie-session": "~1.2.0",
    "express-session": "~1.11.3",
    "jade": "~1.11.0",
    "method-override": "~2.3.5",
    "morgan": "~1.6.1",
    "multiparty": "~4.1.2",
    "vhost": "~3.0.1"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">= 0.10.0"
  },
  "files": [
    "LICENSE",
    "History.md",
    "Readme.md",
    "index.js",
    "lib/"
  ],
  "scripts":{"test":"mocha --require test/support/env --reporter spec --bail --check-leaks test/ test/acceptance/","test-ci":"istanbul cover node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha --report lcovonly -- --require test/support/env --reporter spec --check-leaks test/ test/acceptance/","test-cov":"istanbul cover node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha -- --require test/support/env --reporter dot --check-leaks test/ test/acceptance/","test-tap":"mocha --require test/support/env --reporter tap --check-leaks test/ test/acceptance/"},"gitHead":"ef7ad681b245fba023843ce94f6bcb8e275bbb8e","bugs":{"url":"https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues"},"_id":"[email protected]","_shasum":"ddb2f1fb4502bf33598d2b032b037960ca6c80a3","_from":"[email protected]*","_npmVersion":"1.4.28","_npmUser":{"name":"dougwilson","email":"[email protected]"},"maintainers":[{"name":"tjholowaychuk","email":"[email protected]"},{"name":"jongleberry","email":"[email protected]"},{"name":"dougwilson","email":"[email protected]"},{"name":"rfeng","email":"[email protected]"},{"name":"aredridel","email":"[email protected]"},{"name":"strongloop","email":"[email protected]"},{"name":"defunctzombie","email":"[email protected]"}],"dist":{"shasum":"ddb2f1fb4502bf33598d2b032b037960ca6c80a3","tarball":"http://registry.npmjs.org/express/-/express-4.13.3.tgz"},"directories":{},"_resolved":"https://registry.npmjs.org/express/-/express-4.13.3.tgz","readme":"ERROR: No README data found!"}

Package.json 属性说明

• name - 包名。
• version - 包的版本号。
• description - 包的描述。
• homepage - 包的官网 url 。
• author - 包的作者姓名。
• contributors - 包的其他贡献者姓名。
• dependencies - 依赖包列表。如果依赖包没有安装，npm 会自动将依赖包安装在 node_module 目录下。
• repository - 包代码存放的地方的类型，可以是 git 或 svn，git 可在 Github 上。
• main - main 字段是一个模块ID，它是一个指向你程序的主要项目。就是说，如果你包的名字叫 express，然后用户安装它，然后require("express")。
• keywords - 关键字

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