How to install an npm package from GitHub directly?

Question

Trying to install modules from github results in:

ENOENT error on package.json.

Easily reproduced using express:

Answer 1

You can directly install an github repo by npm install command, like this: npm install https://github.com/futurechallenger/npm_git_install.git --save

NOTE: In the repo which will be installed by npm command:

1. maybe you have to have a dist folder in you repo, according to @Dan Dascalescu's comment.
2. You definitely have to have a package.json in you repo! which I forget add.