Tips and tricks

For that we will follow these steps:

1. Create a directory for global packages

mkdir ~/.npm_packages

2. Tell npm where to store globally installed packages

npm config set prefix "~/.npm_packages"

3. Ensure npm will find installed binaries and man pages

Add the following to your .bashrc / .zshrc:

NPM_PACKAGES="~/.npm_packages"

export PATH="$PATH:$NPM_PACKAGES/bin"

# Preserve MANPATH if you already defined it somewhere in your config.
# Otherwise, fall back to `manpath` so we can inherit from `/etc/manpath`.
export MANPATH="${MANPATH-$(manpath)}:$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man"

i. check config with:

npm config get