Very personal notes on JavaScript-related stuff

Installing globally with npm, but as a user

My Debian has its own nodejs, npm and other stuff. But at some point, I want to use npm to install its own stuff, but not as root (mainly, not to mangle with Debian packages). So, I want to install globally with npm, but as my user, not root.

Fortuuntately, there is a nice recipe: nstall npm packages globally without sudo on macOS and Linux. I adapted it slightly:

mkdir ~/.npm-packages

In ~/.npmrc:

prefix=~/.npm-packages

In ~/.bashrc:

# Ensure npm will find installed binaries and man pages
NPM_PACKAGES=~/.npm-packages
PATH=$NPM_PACKAGES/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man:$MANPATH

And that’s it. Now, when I install with npm install -g, stuff gets installed in .npm-packages