I decided to put together a little list of tips and tricks related to NPM you might not know about, that come from my experience working with it daily, in both production and development.

Dev dependencies

Make sure packages that only need to be installed while developing your module, like test frameworks, are included as devDependencies:

"devDependencies": {
   "module": "0.1.0"
}

Introspecting package.json

Starting with Node 0.6, since require() can read and parse JSON files automatically, you can leverage it to easily introspect package.json:

// considering the mod