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npm root
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
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}"
global
Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the prefix
folder instead of the current working directory. See
folders for more on the differences in behavior.
{prefix}/lib/node_modules
folder, instead
of the current working directory.{prefix}/bin
{prefix}/share/man