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-<h1><a href="../files/npm-folders.html">npm-folders</a></h1> <p>Folder Structures Used by npm</p>
-<h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
-<p>npm puts various things on your computer. That&#39;s its job.</p>
-<p>This document will tell you what it puts where.</p>
-<h3 id="tldr">tl;dr</h3>
-<ul>
-<li>Local install (default): puts stuff in <code>./node_modules</code> of the current
-package root.</li>
-<li>Global install (with <code>-g</code>): puts stuff in /usr/local or wherever node
-is installed.</li>
-<li>Install it <strong>locally</strong> if you&#39;re going to <code>require()</code> it.</li>
-<li>Install it <strong>globally</strong> if you&#39;re going to run it on the command line.</li>
-<li>If you need both, then install it in both places, or use <code>npm link</code>.</li>
-</ul>
-<h3 id="prefix-configuration">prefix Configuration</h3>
-<p>The <code>prefix</code> config defaults to the location where node is installed.
-On most systems, this is <code>/usr/local</code>. On Windows, it&#39;s <code>%AppData%\npm</code>.
-On Unix systems, it&#39;s one level up, since node is typically installed at
-<code>{prefix}/bin/node</code> rather than <code>{prefix}/node.exe</code>.</p>
-<p>When the <code>global</code> flag is set, npm installs things into this prefix.
-When it is not set, it uses the root of the current package, or the
-current working directory if not in a package already.</p>
-<h3 id="node-modules">Node Modules</h3>
-<p>Packages are dropped into the <code>node_modules</code> folder under the <code>prefix</code>.
-When installing locally, this means that you can
-<code>require(&quot;packagename&quot;)</code> to load its main module, or
-<code>require(&quot;packagename/lib/path/to/sub/module&quot;)</code> to load other modules.</p>
-<p>Global installs on Unix systems go to <code>{prefix}/lib/node_modules</code>.
-Global installs on Windows go to <code>{prefix}/node_modules</code> (that is, no
-<code>lib</code> folder.)</p>
-<p>Scoped packages are installed the same way, except they are grouped together
-in a sub-folder of the relevant <code>node_modules</code> folder with the name of that
-scope prefix by the @ symbol, e.g. <code>npm install @myorg/package</code> would place
-the package in <code>{prefix}/node_modules/@myorg/package</code>. See <code><a href="../misc/scope.html">scope(7)</a></code> for
-more details.</p>
-<p>If you wish to <code>require()</code> a package, then install it locally.</p>
-<h3 id="executables">Executables</h3>
-<p>When in global mode, executables are linked into <code>{prefix}/bin</code> on Unix,
-or directly into <code>{prefix}</code> on Windows.</p>
-<p>When in local mode, executables are linked into
-<code>./node_modules/.bin</code> so that they can be made available to scripts run
-through npm. (For example, so that a test runner will be in the path
-when you run <code>npm test</code>.)</p>
-<h3 id="man-pages">Man Pages</h3>
-<p>When in global mode, man pages are linked into <code>{prefix}/share/man</code>.</p>
-<p>When in local mode, man pages are not installed.</p>
-<p>Man pages are not installed on Windows systems.</p>
-<h3 id="cache">Cache</h3>
-<p>See <code><a href="../cli/npm-cache.html">npm-cache(1)</a></code>. Cache files are stored in <code>~/.npm</code> on Posix, or
-<code>%AppData%/npm-cache</code> on Windows.</p>
-<p>This is controlled by the <code>cache</code> configuration param.</p>
-<h3 id="temp-files">Temp Files</h3>
-<p>Temporary files are stored by default in the folder specified by the
-<code>tmp</code> config, which defaults to the TMPDIR, TMP, or TEMP environment
-variables, or <code>/tmp</code> on Unix and <code>c:\windows\temp</code> on Windows.</p>
-<p>Temp files are given a unique folder under this root for each run of the
-program, and are deleted upon successful exit.</p>
-<h2 id="more-information">More Information</h2>
-<p>When installing locally, npm first tries to find an appropriate
-<code>prefix</code> folder. This is so that <code>npm install foo@1.2.3</code> will install
-to the sensible root of your package, even if you happen to have <code>cd</code>ed
-into some other folder.</p>
-<p>Starting at the $PWD, npm will walk up the folder tree checking for a
-folder that contains either a <code>package.json</code> file, or a <code>node_modules</code>
-folder. If such a thing is found, then that is treated as the effective
-&quot;current directory&quot; for the purpose of running npm commands. (This
-behavior is inspired by and similar to git&#39;s .git-folder seeking
-logic when running git commands in a working dir.)</p>
-<p>If no package root is found, then the current folder is used.</p>
-<p>When you run <code>npm install foo@1.2.3</code>, then the package is loaded into
-the cache, and then unpacked into <code>./node_modules/foo</code>. Then, any of
-foo&#39;s dependencies are similarly unpacked into
-<code>./node_modules/foo/node_modules/...</code>.</p>
-<p>Any bin files are symlinked to <code>./node_modules/.bin/</code>, so that they may
-be found by npm scripts when necessary.</p>
-<h3 id="global-installation">Global Installation</h3>
-<p>If the <code>global</code> configuration is set to true, then npm will
-install packages &quot;globally&quot;.</p>
-<p>For global installation, packages are installed roughly the same way,
-but using the folders described above.</p>
-<h3 id="cycles-conflicts-and-folder-parsimony">Cycles, Conflicts, and Folder Parsimony</h3>
-<p>Cycles are handled using the property of node&#39;s module system that it
-walks up the directories looking for <code>node_modules</code> folders. So, at every
-stage, if a package is already installed in an ancestor <code>node_modules</code>
-folder, then it is not installed at the current location.</p>
-<p>Consider the case above, where <code>foo -&gt; bar -&gt; baz</code>. Imagine if, in
-addition to that, baz depended on bar, so you&#39;d have:
-<code>foo -&gt; bar -&gt; baz -&gt; bar -&gt; baz ...</code>. However, since the folder
-structure is: <code>foo/node_modules/bar/node_modules/baz</code>, there&#39;s no need to
-put another copy of bar into <code>.../baz/node_modules</code>, since when it calls
-require(&quot;bar&quot;), it will get the copy that is installed in
-<code>foo/node_modules/bar</code>.</p>
-<p>This shortcut is only used if the exact same
-version would be installed in multiple nested <code>node_modules</code> folders. It
-is still possible to have <code>a/node_modules/b/node_modules/a</code> if the two
-&quot;a&quot; packages are different versions. However, without repeating the
-exact same package multiple times, an infinite regress will always be
-prevented.</p>
-<p>Another optimization can be made by installing dependencies at the
-highest level possible, below the localized &quot;target&quot; folder.</p>
-<h4 id="example">Example</h4>
-<p>Consider this dependency graph:</p>
-<pre><code>foo
-+-- blerg@1.2.5
-+-- bar@1.2.3
-| +-- blerg@1.x (latest=1.3.7)
-| +-- baz@2.x
-| | `-- quux@3.x
-| | `-- bar@1.2.3 (cycle)
-| `-- asdf@*
-`-- baz@1.2.3
- `-- quux@3.x
- `-- bar</code></pre><p>In this case, we might expect a folder structure like this:</p>
-<pre><code>foo
-+-- node_modules
- +-- blerg (1.2.5) &lt;---[A]
- +-- bar (1.2.3) &lt;---[B]
- | `-- node_modules
- | +-- baz (2.0.2) &lt;---[C]
- | | `-- node_modules
- | | `-- quux (3.2.0)
- | `-- asdf (2.3.4)
- `-- baz (1.2.3) &lt;---[D]
- `-- node_modules
- `-- quux (3.2.0) &lt;---[E]</code></pre><p>Since foo depends directly on <code>bar@1.2.3</code> and <code>baz@1.2.3</code>, those are
-installed in foo&#39;s <code>node_modules</code> folder.</p>
-<p>Even though the latest copy of blerg is 1.3.7, foo has a specific
-dependency on version 1.2.5. So, that gets installed at [A]. Since the
-parent installation of blerg satisfies bar&#39;s dependency on <code>blerg@1.x</code>,
-it does not install another copy under [B].</p>
-<p>Bar [B] also has dependencies on baz and asdf, so those are installed in
-bar&#39;s <code>node_modules</code> folder. Because it depends on <code>baz@2.x</code>, it cannot
-re-use the <code>baz@1.2.3</code> installed in the parent <code>node_modules</code> folder [D],
-and must install its own copy [C].</p>
-<p>Underneath bar, the <code>baz -&gt; quux -&gt; bar</code> dependency creates a cycle.
-However, because bar is already in quux&#39;s ancestry [B], it does not
-unpack another copy of bar into that folder.</p>
-<p>Underneath <code>foo -&gt; baz</code> [D], quux&#39;s [E] folder tree is empty, because its
-dependency on bar is satisfied by the parent folder copy installed at [B].</p>
-<p>For a graphical breakdown of what is installed where, use <code>npm ls</code>.</p>
-<h3 id="publishing">Publishing</h3>
-<p>Upon publishing, npm will look in the <code>node_modules</code> folder. If any of
-the items there are not in the <code>bundledDependencies</code> array, then they will
-not be included in the package tarball.</p>
-<p>This allows a package maintainer to install all of their dependencies
-(and dev dependencies) locally, but only re-publish those items that
-cannot be found elsewhere. See <code><a href="../files/package.json.html">package.json(5)</a></code> for more information.</p>
-<h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="../files/package.json.html">package.json(5)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../cli/npm-install.html">npm-install(1)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../cli/npm-pack.html">npm-pack(1)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../cli/npm-cache.html">npm-cache(1)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../cli/npm-config.html">npm-config(1)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../files/npmrc.html">npmrc(5)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../misc/npm-config.html">npm-config(7)</a></li>
-<li><a href="../cli/npm-publish.html">npm-publish(1)</a></li>
-</ul>
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