global-dirs
Advanced tools
The global-dirs npm package is designed to provide information about the directories used by npm and Yarn for global installations. This can include paths to globally installed packages, binaries, and more. It's particularly useful for tooling and applications that need to interact with or manage globally installed npm or Yarn packages.
Accessing npm and Yarn global directories
This feature allows you to access the paths to the global installation directories of npm and Yarn. This can be useful for tools that need to know where global packages are installed.
const globalDirs = require('global-dirs');
console.log(globalDirs.npm.prefix); // Path to npm's global installation directory
console.log(globalDirs.yarn.prefix); // Path to Yarn's global installation directoryAccessing npm and Yarn global binaries directories
This feature provides the paths to the directories where npm and Yarn store globally installed binaries. This is useful for executing global binaries or for tools that manage global packages and their executables.
const globalDirs = require('global-dirs');
console.log(globalDirs.npm.binaries); // Path to npm's global binaries directory
console.log(globalDirs.yarn.binaries); // Path to Yarn's global binaries directorySimilar to global-dirs, find-global-packages is focused on identifying globally installed npm packages. However, it goes a step further by listing the packages themselves, not just the directories where they are installed. This makes it more suited for applications that need to inspect or interact with the installed packages directly.
global-modules provides the path to the global npm modules directory, similar to one aspect of global-dirs. The main difference is that global-modules is specifically focused on the modules directory for npm, without providing additional context for Yarn or other types of global directories.
Get the directory of globally installed packages and binaries
Uses the same resolution logic as npm and yarn.
$ npm install global-dirs
const globalDirectories = require('global-dirs');
console.log(globalDirectories.npm.prefix);
//=> '/usr/local'
console.log(globalDirectories.npm.packages);
//=> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
console.log(globalDirectories.npm.binaries);
//=> '/usr/local/bin'
console.log(globalDirectories.yarn.packages);
//=> '/Users/sindresorhus/.config/yarn/global/node_modules'
Directory with globally installed packages.
Equivalent to npm root --global.
Directory with globally installed binaries.
Equivalent to npm bin --global.
Directory with directories for packages and binaries. You probably want either of the above.
Equivalent to npm prefix --global.
FAQs
Get the directory of globally installed packages and binaries
The npm package global-dirs receives a total of 9,059,025 weekly downloads. As such, global-dirs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that global-dirs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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