List all node modules installed globally & locally in Node.js

ByAnkush Jain| Last Updated On Monday, Oct 01, 2018

NodeJS

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This post will show you – how can you get a list of all node modules installed globally & locally on your machine.

List all globally installed node modules

You can use the below commands to get a list of all node modules installed globally on your machine.

npm list -g --depth 0

OR

npm list -g

There are also a few aliases for list and they are ls, la & ll. It means you can also write the above commands in the below ways.

1. npm ls -g --depth 0
2. npm la -g --depth 0
3. npm ll -g --depth 0

When you run commands using ll or la – It will show some extra information by default.

Important Note: npm list -g --depth 0 command is faster than npm list -g. Reason being, npm list -g --depth 0 doesn’t care about further node-module dependencies & display result as a flat list. On the other hand, npm list -g command looks for further module dependencies & displays the result in a tree structure format.

List all locally installed node modules (inside a project)

All the commands will remain the same in this case except the below two things:

1. Just remove -g from the above commands, as -g refers to global.
2. And run the above commands from your project’s root directory location.

That's all...Thanks...:)