What does the npm -i flag mean?

Question

What\'s does the \"i\" flag do in npm?

I saw it used like this:

npm i backbone.marionette

I looked in the npm documentation and searched fo

Answer 1

the i flag is for install. From documentation:

npm install
npm install 
npm install @
npm install @
npm install @
npm install 
npm install 
npm install 
npm install 
npm install /

Can specify one or more: npm install ./foo.tgz bar@stable /some/folder
If no argument is supplied and ./npm-shrinkwrap.json is 
present, installs dependencies specified in the shrinkwrap.
Otherwise, installs dependencies from ./package.json.

Refer official document for more information here