# Npm explainer tutorial video - Expand Your Project with External Packages - Managing Packages with npm - freeCodeCamp Tutorial

The best thing about npm is that we can import packages that others have written. Extrenal packages are added to your project in the 'dependencies' object. Create a key with the package name, giving the desired version as the value. Running 'npm install' will then download and install the packages to your project.

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Concepts: dependencies Dependencies are specified in a simple object that maps a package name to a version range. The version range is a string which has one or more space-separated descriptors. Dependencies can also be identified with a tarball or git…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Ganesh H
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Npm_explainer_tutorial_video_-_Expand_Your_Project_with_External_Packages_-_Managing_Packages_with_npm_-_freeCodeCamp_Tutorial.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Ganesh H
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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