NPM Install Global

When you are on a linux system and you want to run npm i -g <package>, it is not unlikely that you’ll need root access since the packages by default wants to be installed to /usr/.... Now, having to run sudo every time you want to install some global node package feels wrong. So what can you do?

Well, I found this post on stackoverflow which was great. The second answer highlighted the process in two simple steps:

1. npm config set prefix ~/.local
2. set the path to include ~/.local/bin.

What’s so nice with this is that it plays well into the convention of having a ~/.local/bin folder where you can put your own small play executables and scripts that you want globally accessible.