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Adem
Adem

Reputation: 9429

npm installs modules to home directory

Command of npm install <module> installs modules always user home directory not purposely. Which setting causes this behavior? I simply want to install modules to the current path. If I try to install a module, in a folder that in the Desktop for instance, it installs to home directory. 

mymac:testfolder myuser$ pwd
/Users/myuser/Desktop/untitledfolder
mymac:testfolder myuser$ npm install async
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/async
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/async
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash
[email protected] ../../node_modules/async
└── [email protected]

as you see, it installs the modules to ../../node_modules/. I do not have package.json file in testfolder.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 674

Answers (1)

rsp
rsp

Reputation: 111316

You need to have package.json in you current directory.

Did you run npm init?

If you don't have package.json in your current directory then it may try find it in the upper directory, find in your home and install modules there.

Upvotes: 4

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