Writing Node Scripts

When I find myself repeatedly making edits to a large number of files, or if I need to collect some metadata about a collection of files I tend to reach for a quick and dirty Node script.

Usually I can get by with a script.js file written somewhere and then run it via node script.js, however sometimes I want to turn a script into a small node package that I can install and reference elsewhere.

To accomplish that I usually reach for adding a package.json with a bin script entry pointing to the node script.

{
  "name": "my-cool-package",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "bin