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

You can get a list of all globally installed modules using:

ls `npm root -g`

Answer 2

For project dependencies use:

npm list --depth=0

For global dependencies use:

npm list -g --depth=0

Answer 3

As a shorthand, you can run:

npm ls -g --depth=0

Answer 4

You can try NPM Desktop manager

With just one click, you can install/uninstall packages in dev or global status.

Answer 5

To see list of all packages that are installed.

$ npm ls --parseable | awk '{gsub(/\/.*\//,"",$1); print}'| sort -u

show parseable of npm packages list https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/ls#parseable

Answer 6

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