npm install module in current directory

Question

When I run:

npm install my-app

The app is installed into node_modules/my-app/...

I also tried

npm install -g my-app         


        

Answer 1

As @dalu said, if you want to have local packages, you'll need a package.json file.

But to create the package.json file, you will have to initialize npm by running npm init.

You can then use npm install --save[-dev].