Quick question: does everybody of you folks know the exact amount of globally installed npm packages in your workstation? Probably not.
This is especially true for NodeJS/npm newbies, who often try the most popular packages installing them globally, without even defining them in their package.json files; however, this may be useful even for more advanced NodeJS developer, who may not know every npm CLI trick.
So, this is it: npm list -g --depth 0
Let’s break this line down a little bit, shall we?
- npm: the Node package manager command line tool
- list -g: display a tree of every package found in the user’s folders (without the -g option it only shows the current directory’s packages)
- — depth 0 / — depth=0: avoid including every package’s dependencies in the tree view
Here’s a sample result:
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