nvm or npm, installing packages

Question

I go to ~/tmp

when I do npm install eslint

• on one system

it's installed ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/eslint (and it's found via which eslint because ~/.nvm/.. is included in my PATH )

• on another system it's installed ~/tmp/node_modules/eslint where I'm running the npm install command

Both systems have nvm, and both have nvm setup script in the zshrc file

export NVM_DIR="/Users/eugenekim/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

Answer 1

It depends, nvm stands for node version manager. This means you can have multiple versions of node on you device at the same time. npm stands for Node package manager . npm comes with Node.js and allows you to install Javascript packages. So to answer your question, you should use npm UNLESS you want a SEPARATE version of Node.js for your package, which I don't think you need.