• npm – Javascript package manager
• npx – Execute npm package binaries ( a tool for executing node packages )

npx comes bundled with npm version 5.2+.

npm

If you want to run a package using npm, you must specify that package in your package.json file and install a package locally on a project:

npm install package-name

npx

npx is a npm package runner.

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