What is global-prefix?
The global-prefix npm package provides a way to determine the path of the global npm directory on a system. This can be useful for packages that need to know where global modules are installed, for example, to check if a certain global package is installed or to install a package globally programmatically.
What are global-prefix's main functionalities?
Get global npm prefix
This feature allows you to retrieve the path of the global npm directory. The code sample requires the global-prefix module and then logs the global npm prefix to the console.
const globalPrefix = require('global-prefix');
console.log(globalPrefix);
Other packages similar to global-prefix
global-modules
Similar to global-prefix, global-modules provides the location of the global npm modules directory. However, it focuses specifically on the modules directory rather than the npm prefix.
global-dirs
This package is similar to global-prefix but offers more detailed information, including paths to npm's directories for packages, binaries, and data. It provides a broader scope of information about global directories.
which-pm-runs
While not directly related to global paths, which-pm-runs can be used to detect which package manager is currently running a script, which can be useful in conjunction with global path information to perform package manager-specific operations.
global-prefix
Get the npm global path prefix.
Install with npm
npm i global-prefix --save
This is the code used by npm internally to resolve the global prefix.
Usage
var prefix = require('global-prefix');
Run tests
Install dev dependencies:
npm i -d && npm test
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Copyright (c) npm, Inc. and Contributors
Released under the MIT license
This file was generated by verb-cli on February 28, 2015.