How to list npm user-installed packages?

Question

How do I list the user-installed package ONLY in npm? When I do npm -g list it outputs every package and their dependencies, which is not what I wa

Answer 1

One way might be to find the root directory of modules using:

npm root
/Users/me/repos/my_project/node_modules

And then list that directory...

ls /Users/me/repos/my_project/node_modules
grunt                   grunt-contrib-jshint

The user-installed packages in this case are grunt and grunt-contrib-jshint