Where does npm install packages?

Question

Can someone tell me where can I find the Node.js modules, which I installed using npm?

Answer 1

In Ubuntu 14.04 they are installed at

/usr/lib/node_modules

Answer 2

On windows I used npm list -g to find out by default my (global) packages were being installed to C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\npm.

Answer 3

You can find globally installed modules by the command

npm list -g

It will provide you the location where node.js modules have been installed.

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\npm

If you install node.js modules locally in a folder, you can type the following command to see the location.

npm list

Answer 4

For globally-installed modules:

The other answers give you platform-specific responses, but a generic one is this:

When you install global module with npm install -g something, npm looks up a config variable prefix to know where to install the module.

You can get that value by running npm config get prefix

To display all the global modules available in that folder use npm ls -g --depth 0 (depth 0 to not display their dependencies).

If you want to change the global modules path, use npm config edit and put prefix = /my/npm/global/modules/prefix in the file.

When you use some tools like nodist, they change the platform-default installation path of global npm modules.

Answer 5

The easiest way would be to do

npm list -g

to list the package and view their installed location.

I had installed npm via chololatey, so the location is

C:\MyProgramData\chocolatey\lib\nodejs.commandline.0.10.31\tools\node_modules

C:\MyProgramData\ is chocolatey repo location.

Answer 6

In earlier versions of NPM modules were always placed in /usr/local/lib/node or wherever you specified the npm root within the .npmrc file. However, in NPM 1.0+ modules are installed in two places. You can have modules installed local to your application in /.node_modules or you can have them installed globally which will use the above.

More information can be found at https://github.com/isaacs/npm/blob/master/doc/install.md