npm-prefix

Synopsis#

Description#

Print the local prefix to standard output. This is the closest parent directory to contain a package.json file or node_modules directory, unless -g is also specified.

If -g is specified, this will be the value of the global prefix. See npm config for more detail.

Example#

npm prefix
/usr/local/projects/foo

npm prefix -g
/usr/local

Configuration#

See Also#

• npm root
• npm folders
• npm config
• npmrc