How To Install node-watchpack on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-watchpack on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-watchpack is Wrapper library for directory and file watching

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-watchpack on Debian 10.

What is node-watchpack

node-watchpack is:

The watchpack high level API doesn’t map directly to watchers. Instead a three level architecture ensures that for each directory only a single watcher exists.

This library is a dependency for webpack. Webpack takes code targeted at node.js and makes it run in the browser. Node.js comes with API of its own that is not available in the browsers. Webpack exposes this code to programs that are unaware they are running in a browser.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-watchpack on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install node-watchpack Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-watchpack using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-watchpack

Install node-watchpack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-watchpack using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-watchpack

Install node-watchpack Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-watchpack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-watchpack

How To Uninstall node-watchpack on Debian 10

To uninstall only the node-watchpack package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-watchpack

Uninstall node-watchpack And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-watchpack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-watchpack

Remove node-watchpack Configurations and Data

To remove node-watchpack configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-watchpack

Remove node-watchpack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-watchpack configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-watchpack

Dependencies

node-watchpack have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-watchpack package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.