npm-root

Synopsis

npm root [-g]

Description

Print the effective node_modules folder to standard out.

Useful for using npm in shell scripts that do things with the node_modules folder. For example:

#!/bin/bash
global_node_modules="$(npm root --global)"
echo "Global packages installed in: ${global_node_modules}"

See Also

• npm prefix
• npm bin
• npm folders
• npm config
• npmrc