npm

Packages in home directory

This will let npm use a custom directory for globally installed package.

~/.profile

# ...
export NPM_PACKAGES="${HOME}/.npm_packages"
PATH="${NPM_PACKAGES}/bin:${PATH}"
NODE_PATH="${NPM_PACKAGES}/lib/node_modules:${PATH}"
# ...

~/.npmrc

# ...
prefix = "${NPM_PACKAGES}"
# ...

shell interactive console

$ . ~/.profile
$ npm install --global npm