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Visit docs. C ASP. Skill Tests ASP. Want to check how much you know Node. Start Node. Share Tweet Share Whatsapp. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Lorenzo B Just so every one knows, installing without -g option will install a module to you working directory e. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Global libraries You can run npm list -g to see which global libraries are installed and where they're located.

When installing use -g option to install globally npm install -g pm2 - pm2 will be installed globally. Improve this answer. Rohit Sawai 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Decko Decko If you're using nvm, then your global modules may be in one of several places depending on the version of node you're using at the time.

The best way is to use npm list -g as suggested in another answer. Show 6 more comments. Joe Hawkins Joe Hawkins 8, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges.

When I do i. This is a far more useful answer, as the output is suitable for composing larger commands without extracting path from a bunch of output. For MacOS Mojave Add a comment. For globally-installed modules: The other answers give you platform-specific responses, but a generic one is this: When you install global module with npm install -g something , npm looks up a config variable prefix to know where to install the module.

You can get that value by running npm config get prefix To display all the global modules available in that folder use npm ls -g --depth 0 depth 0 to not display their dependencies. Noel Yap You answered my follow-up question: "Can someone tell me how I can change the location of the Node. If you are looking for the executable that npm installed, maybe because you would like to put it in your PATH, you can simply do npm bin or npm bin -g.

Ken Goodridge Ken Goodridge 3, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. If you've globally installed npm packages where node was installed with homebrew and then npm updated with npm itself, you may be getting command not found errors.

Nick Campbell Nick Campbell 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Something to note- with 1. EricSmith your link is broken too — nicolimo Link in answer is dead - " Page not found". Not direct answer but may help Alireza Fattahi Alireza Fattahi Pang 8, gold badges 82 82 silver badges bronze badges.

Mohanraj Mohanraj 3, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. To get a compact list without dependencies simply use npm list -g --depth 0. Adam Bubela Adam Bubela 7, 4 4 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. The easiest way would be to do npm list -g to list the package and view their installed location. Tharaka Tharaka 2, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. In our case, that would be anything below v2. This method of versioning dependencies major.

Also notice that Underscore was saved as a property of the dependencies field. This has become the default in the latest version of npm and is used for packages like Underscore required for the application to run.

It would also be possible to save a package as a devDependency by specifying a --save-dev flag. Tip: you can also add private: true to package. Far and away the biggest reason for using package.

Create a file called test. Run the file using node test. We can remove the package and install an older version, like so:. We can now install the Underscore package in the version we want. We do that by using the sign to append a version number:.

The Current column shows us the version that is installed locally. The Latest column tells us the latest version of the package. And the Wanted column tells us the latest version of the package we can upgrade to without breaking our existing code.

Remember the package-lock. Introduced in npm v5, the purpose of this file is to ensure that the dependencies remain exactly the same on all machines the project is installed on. You can go ahead and try this out if you like. This is because we specified version 1. Prior to the emergence of the package-lock. This was normally solved by using an npm-shrinkwrap.

Tip: for this to work, Underscore has to be listed as a dependency in package. We can also execute npm update if we have many outdated modules we want to update. Is there a Node package that has this functionality? Note the dependencies list got updated automatically. If you wanted to install a package without saving it in package. This way, you can easily share your code with others without bloating your project and source repositories with dependencies. The copies are cached in the.

Have you noticed all of those found 0 vulnerabilities scattered throughout the CLI output? The reason for this is that a new feature was introduced in npm that allows developers to scan the dependencies for known security vulnerabilities.

As soon as we finish installing, we get a quick report that multiple vulnerabilities have been found. You can run the command npm audit to view more details:.