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title: npm-root
section: 1

description: Display npm root

Synopsis

npm root

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

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}"

Configuration

global

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

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.

• packages are installed into the {prefix}/lib/node_modules folder, instead
  of the current working directory.
• bin files are linked to {prefix}/bin
• man pages are linked to {prefix}/share/man

See Also

• npm prefix
• npm folders
• npm config
• npmrc