Friday Functions: npm Path
Don't want to install npm modules globally all the time? Check out this solution from author James Carr.
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Join For FreeThis week’s Friday function is probably the most simplistic in my zsh library. Every time I worked with node.js I always got a little annoyed with having to reference the command line apps referenced under ./node_modules/bin. Sure, I could do an npm install -g but I don’t like mucking with my global environment on a per project basis. Python has virtualenvs which separate these concerns pretty well but to my knowledge node.js has no equivalent.
function npm_path(){
export PATH="$(npm bin):$PATH"
}So my zshrc has contained this function for quite some time.
Now I just run npm path from the root of a node.js project to quickly add its bin directory to my path. I’m sure there are probably more elegant solutions these days… please let me know in the comments!
Topics:
node.js,
npm,
function,
tip,
javascript,
zsh
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