node 全局安装atob

Question

I am having trouble using npm packages globally with node. (on Mac)

This is probably a very simple problem.

This seems to work if I install npm packages locally, but not globally.

I have this code (nt.js):

atob = require ('atob');

and have installed atob as:

npm install -g atob

but, when I try to run the code

$ node nt.js
node nt.js
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:883
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'atob'
Require stack:
...

Npm shows that atob is installed globally:

$ npm list -g
npm list -g
/usr/local/lib
├── atob@2.1.2
├── npm@7.5.4
├── ohm-js@16.0.0
├── pako@2.0.4
└── pegjs@0.10.0

$

Answer 1

I looked on the npm website and they basically say that: "Tip: If you are using npm 5.2 or higher, we recommend using npx to run packages globally."

try this => npx install -g atob