npm command-line interface

# npm-root

Display npm root

## Table of contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Configuration

- `global`

- See Also

### Synopsis

    npm root

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

### Description

Print the effective `node_modules` folder to standard out.

Useful for using npm in shell scripts that do things with the `node_modules` folder. For example:

    #!/bin/bash
    global_node_modules="$(npm root --global)"
    echo "Global packages installed in: ${global_node_modules}"

### Configuration

#### `global`

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

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 prefix
- npm bin
- npm folders
- npm config
- npmrc