A dependency is some third-party code that your application depends on. Just like a child depends on its parent, your application depends on other people’s code. A piece of code becomes a true dependency when your own application cannot function without it.

Should npm be a dependency?

2 Answers. npm or other package managers are meant to be installed globally. No, you don’t need to have NPM as the dependency in package.

What are dependencies in json?

json is where dependencies – the other modules that this module uses – are defined. The dependencies property takes an object that has the name and version at which each dependency should be used. Tying things back to the version property defined earlier, the version that a module needs is defined.