NPM代表节点包管理器。NPM是Node.JS的默认包管理器。它是用Javascript写的。NPM的作用是管理node.js的包和模块。

NPX代表节点包执行。NPX附带了npm，当npm安装在5.2.0版本之上时，它会自动安装。NPX是一个npm包运行器，它的作用是从注册表执行包，甚至不需要安装包。

现在NPM和NPX的区别如下:

i) NPM用于安装包，NPX用于执行包。

ii)由于npm的缘故，安装的包必须被照顾，因为它是全局安装的，而npx使用的包不需要被照顾，因为它们不是全局安装的。

NPX:

从https://www.futurehosting.com/blog/npx-makes-life-easier-for-node-developers-plus-node-vulnerability-news/:

Web developers can have dozens of projects on their development machines, and each project has its own particular set of npm-installed dependencies. A few years back, the usual advice for dealing with CLI applications like Grunt or Gulp was to install them locally in each project and also globally so they could easily be run from the command line. But installing globally caused as many problems as it solved. Projects may depend on different versions of command line tools, and polluting the operating system with lots of development-specific CLI tools isn’t great either. Today, most developers prefer to install tools locally and leave it at that. Local versions of tools allow developers to pull projects from GitHub without worrying about incompatibilities with globally installed versions of tools. NPM can just install local versions and you’re good to go. But project specific installations aren’t without their problems: how do you run the right version of the tool without specifying its exact location in the project or playing around with aliases? That’s the problem npx solves. A new tool included in NPM 5.2, npx is a small utility that’s smart enough to run the right application when it’s called from within a project. If you wanted to run the project-local version of mocha, for example, you can run npx mocha inside the project and it will do what you expect. A useful side benefit of npx is that it will automatically install npm packages that aren’t already installed. So, as the tool’s creator Kat Marchán points out, you can run npx benny-hill without having to deal with Benny Hill polluting the global environment. If you want to take npx for a spin, update to the most recent version of npm.

简单的定义:

NPX

npx代表节点包执行，它随npm而来， 当你在5.2.0版本以上安装NPM时，NPX会自动自动的 安装。它是一个npm包运行器，可以执行任何包 你想从NPM注册表中得到的，甚至不需要安装它 包中。

NPM

npm是JavaScript编程语言的包管理器 的默认包管理器 JavaScript运行时环境。它由一个命令行组成 客户端，也叫npm，是一个公共和付费的在线数据库 私人包

下面是一个使用npx创建应用程序的示例

NPX create-react-app project-name——template all

简单地说，npm就是节点包管理器 NPX是运行NPM包的可执行版本

包管理器

npx -执行npm包

这就是它的不同之处。