global-prefix
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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.
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);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.
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.
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.
Readme
Get the npm global path prefix.
Install with npm:
$ npm install global-prefix --save
This is the code used by npm internally to resolve the global prefix.
var prefix = require('global-prefix');
//=> '/usr/local'
Install dev dependencies:
$ npm install -d && npm test
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright © 2016 Jon Schlinkert Copyright (c) npm, Inc. and Contributors Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb, v0.9.0, on March 13, 2016.
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Get the npm global path prefix.
The npm package global-prefix receives a total of 13,024,949 weekly downloads. As such, global-prefix popularity was classified as popular.
We found that global-prefix demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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