npm - Get List of Globally Installed Packages
How to check the list of globally installed npm packages in our workstation? We can use command:
npm list -g --depth 0
Let's run it, and we will get something similar like this:
C:\Users\Dariawan>npm list -g --depth 0 C:\Users\Dariawan\AppData\Roaming\npm +-- [email protected] `-- [email protected]
Here the explanation of the command:
- npm: Node Package Manager command line tool - package manager for the JavaScript programming language
- list -g: display a tree of packages found in the user’s folders (without the -g option, it will list down packages in the current directory)
- --depth 0: don't include package’s dependencies in the tree view
if we run npm list -g without --depth 0, we will get all dependencies printed in treeview:
C:\Users\Dariawan\AppData\Roaming\npm +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | | +-- [email protected] | | | +-- [email protected] | | | | `-- [email protected] deduped | | | +-- [email protected] | | | `-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] deduped | | +-- [email protected] deduped | | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] deduped | | `-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] ... ... -- purposely truncated -- ... `-- [email protected] +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] deduped | `-- [email protected] +-- [email protected] +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | | `-- [email protected] | | +-- [email protected] | | `-- [email protected] ... ... -- purposely truncated -- ...
No npm/Node.js?
npm now is the de-facto standard package manager for the JavaScript programming language. It's installed together with Node.js. If you are using Windows environment, I suggest to install Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows. And from Chocolatey, you can install Node.js. My suggestion, install the LTS version:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>choco install nodejs-lts Chocolatey v0.10.8 Installing the following packages: nodejs-lts By installing you accept licenses for the packages. Progress: Downloading nodejs-lts 10.15.3... 100% nodejs-lts v10.15.3 [Approved] nodejs-lts package files install completed. Performing other installation steps. The package nodejs-lts wants to run 'chocolateyinstall.ps1'. Note: If you don't run this script, the installation will fail. Note: To confirm automatically next time, use '-y' or consider: choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation Do you want to run the script?([Y]es/[N]o/[P]rint): Y Installing 64 bit version Installing nodejs-lts... nodejs-lts has been installed. nodejs-lts may be able to be automatically uninstalled. Environment Vars (like PATH) have changed. Close/reopen your shell to see the changes (or in powershell/cmd.exe just type `refreshenv`). The install of nodejs-lts was successful. Software installed as 'MSI', install location is likely default. Chocolatey installed 1/1 packages. See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
Test your Node and npm version:
C:\Users\Dariawan>node -v v9.4.0 C:\Users\Dariawan>npm -v 6.4.1
Now your npm is ready.
Installing Packages using npm
Use npm install to install npm package to your workstation. Use -g to install it globally as below example:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>npm install -g generator-jhipster C:\Users\Dariawan\AppData\Roaming\npm\jhipster -> C:\Users\Dariawan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\generator-jhipster\cli\jhipster.js > [email protected] postinstall C:\Users\Dariawan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\generator-jhipster\node_modules\spawn-sync > node postinstall + [email protected] added 513 packages from 330 contributors in 113.956s
When we list down our globally installed packages, now we found generator-jhipster is in the list
C:\Users\Dariawan>npm list -g --depth 0 C:\Users\Dariawan\AppData\Roaming\npm +-- [email protected] +-- [email protected] `-- [email protected]
Desson AriawanProgrammer