Node.js 不会在项目文件夹中安装包

Question

I'm not sure what happened, but I've wasted six hours trying to fix Node.js as it just stopped working out of nowhere. Running Windows 11 with Powershell & Git Bash .

When I try to run npm install in my local git repository with a Next.js application ( which I already initialized and even deleting and initializing again ), it does not work; rather, it installs my project as a package WTFF??

Whenever I run create-next-app, it also installs the dependencies to the global folder.

I've tried:

• Reinstalling Node.js (via Winget and Scoop)
• Removing node_modules folder globally
• Deleting package-lock.json
• Creating a new project ( doesn't work on any repository )
• Configure --location flag at default startup to project , but it still did not fix it.
• Deleting old package.json and initalizing a new one
• Creating a new project

See below for screenshots.

• What it says every time I run npm install in any repository

• Result of npm list

• Modified Configuration file

Please let me know if anyone has any idea, whether right or wrong. I tried looking online for related posts but couldn't find any like mine; if I overlooked any, please link them below. Thanks to anyone that helps, I have been losing my mind over this.

EDIT: When I set the flag for npm in the npm shim files, it does not work. But the workaround is to add --location=project every time I run an npm or npx command. I know you can set an alias to make life easier. How do I fix the configuration files?

I edited the shims located in: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin and C:\Program Files\nodejs

Answer 1

I found out how to fix this problem; it had to do with a .npmrc already existing in my User folder, which automatically added it to the npm config, or I'm assuming. All I had to do with remove the .npmrc file in my home directory and run npm config set location=project , and it configured itself to install to the project directory by default.

Problem

.npmrc file existed when it should not have been there, so even though I reinstalled Node, the .npmrc never got deleted, so it always defaulted to the old configuration file and never worked.

Solution

• Run npm config ls to see your configuration file
• For me, there was a line in the configuration that looked like
  ; "global" config from C:\Users\Ashwi\.npmrc
• I deleted the file, then updated the configuration by setting the default location to project
  npm config set location=project
• Then I restarted Powershell, and everything worked perfectly. However, to install global packages, you must add the --location=global flag every time you run the command.

Answer 2

Use diffrent drive then c(sytem drive) in Windows OS.