npm 安装 -g aws-sdk 但未找到 aws-sdk

Question

I've installed aws-sdk in an ubuntu 20.04 container as follows:

sudo npm install -g aws-sdk

The, when running a script that requires the package, I get:

Error: Cannot find module 'aws-sdk'

Why can't it find my package? What am I doing wrong? Installing with -g but without sudo fails with permission errors.

Any help or hints welcome.

Answer 1

You have to link the global module to your project by executing:-

npm link aws-sdk

in your project's root directory provided you have aws-sdk globally installed.

npm link <package-name> will create a symbolic link from globally-installed package-name to node_modules/ of the current folder.

Source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-link