Install package globally – npm

Summary

To install a package globally, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm install -g package-name

Details

To install an npm package globally, you can use the npm install command with a -g flag. For example, if you wanted to install the gatsby-cli package, you would enter the following command in your terminal:

npm install -g gatsby-cli

To list all of your globally installed packages and check that your package was installed correctly, enter the following command in your terminal:

npm list -g --depth 0

Continuing the example above, if you installed gatsby-cli correctly, you should see something similar to the following print out in your terminal (your version number may be different):

├── gatsby-cli@2.6.4

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Reference

Downloading and installing packages globally | npm Documentation

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