npm-prefix.md

section	title	description
cli-commands	npm-prefix	Display prefix

npm-prefix(1)

Display prefix

Synopsis

npm prefix [-g]

Description

Print the local prefix to standard out. This is the closest parent directory to contain a package.json file or node_modules directory, unless -g is also specified.

If -g is specified, this will be the value of the global prefix. See npm config for more detail.

See Also

• npm root
• npm bin
• npm folders
• npm config
• npmrc