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dragonfly
dragonfly

Reputation: 17783

Access globally installed package via require in node

I have a gulp based build system. Currently I have some tasks, e.g. a task that is accessing npm (require('npm')) programmatically. In order to achieve it I need to specify npm in my package.json dependencies, so that require can find it inside node_modules. However npm is obviously available along with node & I also have npm installed globally (latest 3.x version of npm).

Is there a way to require a global instance of npm? I do the same stuff e.g. with other npm packages (I mean I have global package installed but I duplicate it in package.json to make it available via require).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (1)

AJS
AJS

Reputation: 2023

Yes you can do it by adding NODE_PATH to your environment variable eg:

export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/

After doing this you node should be able to find globally installed packages as well.

NOTE:your node module path may defer.

to make it permanent you can add the commmand to your ~/.bashrc file

Upvotes: 2

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