npm-prefix.md

title	section	description
npm-prefix	1	Display prefix

Synopsis

npm prefix [-g]

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

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

global

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean
• DEPRECATED: --global, --location=global, --no-global, and --local are all deprecated

Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the prefix folder instead of the current working directory. See folders for more on the differences in behavior.

• packages are installed into the {prefix}/lib/node_modules folder, instead of the current working directory.
• bin files are linked to {prefix}/bin
• man pages are linked to {prefix}/share/man

See Also

• npm root
• npm bin
• npm folders
• npm config
• npmrc