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 also set an environment variable with export npm_config_cache=/path/to/cache (Unix) or set npm_config_cache=C:\path\to\cache (Win) as an alternative to npm config set (this is true for all config options in npm).

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For anyone using docker you can add the env var at runtime with:

docker run -e npm_config_cache=/path/to/cache mydockerimage:tag