使用npm进行安装时，请使用自定义目录名而不是node_modules

Question

I create a package.json , I run npm install , it works alright. It creates a node_modules directory in my root folder (which I can change by using --prefix option). However, I don't like underscores all that much. I want to change the name of the directory NPM downloads the modules to. I want it to be named nmods or node-modules or something like that.

Bower can do a similar thing by reading the directory property inside a .bowerrc file in the current dir. Is there a way to do the same with NPM?

Answer 1

There is no way to change it. The node_modules folder is actually not specific to NPM, it is part of Node's core module loading system. Seen here in module.js .

Changing it globally as you've mentioned would also potentially break some of the modules you are using too, as modules are sometimes packages with their dependencies already present in node_modules and changing it would cause that to break.

Answer 2

Yarn you can easily achieve this by adding a file called '.yarnrc' with contents like this:

# ./.yarnrc
--modules-folder lib

Next time you run 'yarn' it will create the lib folder and install packages into there instead of into node_modules .

Now if only we could get 'npm install' to be as clever.

Answer 3

没有办法在npm中更改它，但是，有一个选项可以在yarn包管理器中配置它。

yarn install --modules-folder <path>