How can I change the default location for NPM installs on Windows?

Question

When I install modules with NPM on Windows, it installs them to:

~/node_modules

I'd like to set change this to an arbitrary path such as:

c:\dev\repo\node_modules

I've tried

npm config set prefix <path>

With various values but none of them seem to work.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the FAQ npm installs modules locally, to avoid dependency conflicts with nesting dependencies. If you really want different projects to reference the same copy you can use npm link.