Modern Full-Stack Development

 Finding/Searching for Packages sans Browser
It’s easy enough to browse the central NPM registry for packages of interest via a web 
browser, but it’s not your only choice. NPM itself provides a search capability, an 
example of which you can see in Figure 
2-1
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Figure 2-1.  A simple NPM search for “express”
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You can use the search command in a few ways, but searching via description 
like this is perhaps the most common. In fact, this search will examine all metadata 
for packages, not just the description, which is why you see some name and keyword 
matches highlighted as well.