Here we will see how we can use this to create our angular application, which uses material as the added library for designing for better clarity. It also has an official website where we can see available packages online, and NPM manages this package and registry both. It contains various components such as command-line interface, public, private packages, online database etc. It basically acts as the default package for the JavaScript runtime environment. Since it manages Packages and this packages are in the format of CommonJS and also include the metadata file, which is of form JSON.

NPM does not specifically belong to angular. By the help of this, we can easily use and consume the JavaScript module which are available or, we can say, present in the registry.

We can use NPM via a command-line interface, and it basically interacts with the remote registry, which helps us to download the dependency. NPM stands for Node Package Manager it is one of the important features of Node.js.

The following article provides an outline for Angular Material NPM.

Angularjs npm install