How to tell if npm package was installed globally or locally
I am installing grunt, node, npm, bower, and grunt-cli on windows7.
The instructions say i should run the install commands with -g flag for global.
How can I check if I used the -g flag when i installed. It will take a lot of time to uninstall them and reinstall.
Use the list
command with the -g
flag to see all packages that are installed globally:
npm list -g
To check if a specific package is installed globally, you can provide the name of package (grunt
in this case) as seen below:
npm list -g grunt
Or you can use grep
to filter on package names:
npm list -g | grep grunt
Source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/ls
npm list --depth 1 --global packagename > /dev/null 2>&1
You can then check the exit status to see if it's installed or not. Thanks Adam Monsen.