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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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npm install on my machine is defaulting to global

I'm trying to practice some of what I learned in Gulp on my local machine, but when I try and do npm install [module] it defaults to global without me adding the -g flag. It doesn't add a node_modules folder in my local directory.

Maybe I changed some preferences at some point? Trying to read the docs but I can't make sense of it.

2 Answers

Rich Donnellan
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Add the --save flag. Read more at the npm docs.

npm install [module] --save
Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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I don't know why I'm struggling so much with this. Here is what I did in my terminal:

  • npm install underscore --save
  • it installs it in what appears to be the global node_modules folder, not local
  • I list the contents of the local folder, there is no node_modules folder
  • npm ls shows all the global modules including underscore 
~/test: npm install underscore --save
underscore@1.8.3 ../node_modules/underscore
~/test: ls
~/test: npm ls
/Users/brendan.whiting
├─┬ mongodb@2.1.13
│ ├── es6-promise@3.0.2
│ ├─┬ mongodb-core@1.3.12
│ │ ├── bson@0.4.22
│ │ └─┬ require_optional@1.0.0
│ │   ├── resolve-from@2.0.0
│ │   └── semver@5.1.0
│ └─┬ readable-stream@1.0.31
│   ├── core-util-is@1.0.2
│   ├── inherits@2.0.1
│   ├── isarray@0.0.1
│   └── string_decoder@0.10.31
└── underscore@1.8.3

~/test:
Rich Donnellan
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Rich Donnellan
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Nice! Chances are you won't make the same mistake again! :)

Craig Watson
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Craig Watson
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Hi Brendan,

Sorry I could not reply sooner, but glad to hear you have it sorted...

Craig