NAME

       init - Interactively create a package.json file

SYNOPSIS

       npm.commands.init(args, callback)

DESCRIPTION

       This will ask you a bunch of questions, and then write a package.json for you.

       It  attempts  to  make  reasonable  guesses  about  what  you want things to be set to, and then writes a
       package.json file with the options you´ve selected.

       If you already have a package.json file, it´ll read that first, and default to the options in there.

       It is strictly additive, so it does not delete options from  your  package.json  without  a  really  good
       reason to do so.

       Since  this  function  expects  to  be  run  on  the  command-line,  it  doesn´t  work  very  well  as  a
       programmatically. The best option is to roll your own, and since JavaScript makes  it  stupid  simple  to
       output  formatted  JSON,  that  is  the  preferred method. If you´re sure you want to handle command-line
       prompting, then go ahead and use this programmatically.

SEE ALSO

       npm help  package.json

                                                  October 2013                                           INIT(3)