[npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) is a package manager for JavaScript distributed with [[Node.js]]. To access `npm`, simply install [[Node.js]]. ## Update npm ```bash npm update -g npm ``` See the docs for the **[`update`](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/update)** command. To check the current version of Node.js and `npm`: ```bash node -v nmp -v ```