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hsz
hsz

Reputation: 152266

Change npm-debug.log location

When I run npm start and there is some error, it says:

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/hsz/Projects/project/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

And this file is located in a directory from which I have called npm.

Is it possible to set npm-debug.log output file to ./logs/npm-debug.log ?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 33666

Answers (2)

Evan Carroll
Evan Carroll

Reputation: 1

RFC 499

I opened up an RFC 499 to make this request. Please consider upvoting it for visibility or commenting with your own ideas on how this feature should look. This will track the progress and input under the official npm/rfcs project.

Upvotes: 0

Omar Al-Ithawi
Omar Al-Ithawi

Reputation: 5160

Update:

npm pull request #6744 tries to move npm-debug.log from cwd into the cache folder.

Original Answer:

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this. It is hardcoded:

In error-handler.js

if (wroteLogFile) {
  log.error("", [""
            ,"Additional logging details can be found in:"
            ,"    " + path.resolve("npm-debug.log")
            ].join("\n"))
  wroteLogFile = false
}
log.error("not ok", "code", code)

And other occurrences as well.

I don't think this flexibility would fit into npm's philosophy see isaacs comment:

npm config set prefix?

If you want to spell "node_modules" differently, sorry, no can do. That's built into node-core. Changing that is tantamount to building a completely different package manager.

Upvotes: 5

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