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Node Newbie Error – NPM Refusing to Install Package as a Dependency of Itself

I encountered an error and thought I’d post the solution here since it just might happen to you sometime! Here’s the scenario: I was planning to take the winston npm module out for a spin to try out it’s awesome logging capabilities. I created a directory called winston to create a project and conduct the test. What would be more logical than that? 🙂 Next, I ran npm init to create a package.json file hitting my Enter key as fast as it could go to accept all the defaults for this throwaway test project:

Learning through Making – Getting Started with Node.js

Today we are kicking off our LTM (Learning through Making) series of tutorials to delve into the amazing world of Node.js. We’re going to do some fun projects along the way, but we first need to lay a foundation and get Node.js installed. What is Node.js? As described on Wikipedia, “Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side Web applications.” Node.js is awesome because it allows us to build a gamut of applications from highly scalable networked applications to console applications. Node.js uses a single-threaded event loop model to process events in an event queue which helps it process high amounts of I/O. This differs from say, the Apache Read More