NPM -v not showing version in package.json

Question

I wish to run npm audit and npm audit fix

In my package.json npm is version 6.4.1

"npm": "^6.4.1",

But when I run npm -v in the project directory it shows 5.6.0

When I run npm install npm@latest -g it shows npm@6.4.1

The when I run npm -v in the project directory it shows 5.6.0

What could be the cause of this?

Answer 1

Installing the latest version of node resolves the npm -v version conflict.

This is due to npm being installed during the node install and therefore fixing any conflict with the global installation path.