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

Node_modules contains user-installed packages so change the directory to node_modules and list the items. Core Modules are defined in node's source in the lib/ folder.

Example:

     example@example:~/:~/node_modules$ ls
     express  maxmind-native  node-whois  socket.io  ua-parser-js
     geoip    mongoskin       pdfkit      tail       zeromq
     maxmind  nodemailer      request     ua-parser  zmq