3 things I do after installing Nodejs

Installing latest npm

$ npm install -g npm@latest

Disabling npm’s progress bar

Disabling progress bar for faster npm install.

$ npm set progress=false

See Progress bar noticeably slows down npm install · Issue #11283 · npm/npm

Installing npm-check

npm-check checks outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies.

$ npm install -g npm-check

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