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I have a nodejs project on GitHub. I use git clone ${GitHubUrl} to clone it for development. I use npm install ${GitHubUrl} or npm update for production use.
git clone sets up a git repo for development/committing, however it does not install package dependencies.
npm install installs package dependencies, however it does not set up a git repo for developing or committing.
Is there a command that combines these two? Surely this is a fairly common workflow and someone has a better solution for this. Perhaps something like git clone ${GitHubUrl} then some npm command?
A workable solution here could be commit ./node_modules into the git repo, but that has obvious disadvantages.
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npm install git doesn't install git (i.e. the command line tool to manipulate git repositories). It installs the npm package called git which seems to be a JavaScript library to interact with git repositories (which makes the name accurate, but still misleading). npm is not a general-purpose package manager.
git clone sets up a git repo for development/committing, however it does not install package dependencies.
@SLaks has the right answer.
git clone foo && cd foo && npm i
I did not realize npm install with no additional arguments installs the local package.json file.
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