Making Global NPM packages available to all users on windows 2012 server

Question

I am trying to install continues integration server. This server will pull data from GIT and it will try to build the application. Since I am using windows 2012 server, mult

Answer 1

Had the same issue. Needed the CI build agent to run a global package on the CLI. Saw this post in a new feature request for system-wide npm -g for Windows.

In short:

1. Open an administrator level command prompt
2. Note the current global prefix: npm prefix -g
3. Set the global prefix to the CI user: npm config set prefix
4. Install the needed packages: npm i -g PKG
5. Restore the prefix to the previous value.