resolve-global

What is resolve-global?

The resolve-global npm package is designed to help developers find and require modules that are installed globally on the system. This can be particularly useful for CLI tools and applications that need to interact with packages installed outside of the local project directory.

What are resolve-global's main functionalities?

Resolve and require global modules

This feature allows you to resolve the path to a globally installed module and then require it if it exists. The example demonstrates how to silently resolve the path to the 'lodash' module and then require and use it if it's found.

const resolveGlobal = require('resolve-global');
const lodash = resolveGlobal.silent('lodash');
if (lodash) {
  const _ = require(lodash);
  console.log('Lodash version:', _.VERSION);
}

Other packages similar to resolve-global

global-modules

Similar to resolve-global, global-modules provides the path to the global npm modules directory, but it does not offer the functionality to resolve the path to a specific module. It's more focused on providing the location of the global modules directory rather than resolving individual modules.

import-global

import-global is another package that allows importing of global modules. It is similar to resolve-global in its purpose but differs in its approach and API. While resolve-global provides a method to resolve the path to a module, import-global attempts to directly import the module, abstracting away the resolution step.

README

resolve-global

Resolve the path of a globally installed module

Install

npm install resolve-global

Usage

npm install --global cat-names

import {resolveGlobal} from 'resolve-global';

console.log(resolveGlobal('cat-names'));
//=> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cat-names'

API

resolveGlobal(moduleName)

Throws if the module cannot be found.

resolveGlobalSilent(moduleName)

Returns undefined instead of throwing if the module cannot be found.

moduleName

Type: string

What you would use in import().

Related

• import-global - Import a globally installed module
• resolve-from - Resolve the path of a module from a given path
• import-from - Import a module from a given path
• is-installed-globally - Check if your package was installed globally
• global-directory - Get the directory of globally installed packages and binaries