How can I change the cache path for npm (or completely disable the cache) on Windows?

Question

I\'ve installed Node.js on my Windows 7 x64 development machine, the manual way:

mkdir C:\\Devel\\nodejs
cd C:\\De         


        

Answer 1

You can change npm cache folder using the npm command line. (see : https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/config and more specifically https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/config#cache)

So you might want to try this command :

> npm config set cache C:\Devel\nodejs\npm-cache --global