Installing electron globally on Ubuntu with NPM

Question

Attempting to resolve this question and getting the following error when installing electron globally with NPM:

    ole@mki:~/angular-electron$ sudo npm install electron -g 
    /usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js

    > electron@1.7.12 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
    > node install.js

    /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/install.js:48
    throw err
    ^

    Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/dist'
    npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
    npm ERR! errno 1
    npm ERR! electron@1.7.12 postinstall: `node install.js`
    npm ERR! Exit status 1
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.7.12 postinstall script.
    npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

    npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /home/ole/.npm/_logs/2018-02-03T03_28_15_952Z-debug.log

Answer 1

As npm proposes:

 mkdir ~/.npm-global
 npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
 export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
 source ~/.profile

By doing it this was you keep your global npm packages scoped within your user account, instead of shared between all the users in the computer. Even if you're the only user, this is a recommended behavior. :-)