NodeJS - List installed packages using the npm list command
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Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: January 31 2024
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The npm list command can be used to list the currently installed packages in the present working directory. If no packages are installed in the present working directory, something like this should be returned.
~]# npm list
/root
(empty)
Let's install a package, Sails in this example.
npm install sails
This should create two files and a directory in the present working directory.
~]# ls --long
drwxr-xr-x 171 root root 8192 Aug 6 22:28 node_modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Aug 6 22:28 package.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147873 Aug 6 22:28 package-lock.json
And now npm list should show that Sails is an installed package in the present working directory.
~]# npm list
root@ /root
sails@1.4.4
The npm list --global command can be used to list packages that were installed using the --global flag. Notice in this example that global packages are found at /usr/nodejs/lib.
~]# npm list --global
/usr/nodejs/lib
npm@7.20.3
sails@1.4.4
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