Unknown npm install syntax with gulp

Question

I have been following a gulp 'recipe' for cleaning directories. They suggest to use the vanilla node del module and to run npm i gulp del. What is that install syntax?

I've looked at the npm install docs and thought it might be a scoped package, however it doesn't follow the syntax exactly and the module doesn't seem to be installed in the appropriate locations.

Answer 1

i is an alias for install.

Here you're installing both the gulp and del packages.