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

Answer 2

In addition, I found that running an update command works also - for example:

npm update npm

Lastly, one can check their npm-cache directory to see if is being filled or not.

Answer 3

You can also do following:

For having cache path as you wish, for a single package while installing it:

npm install packageName --cache path/to/some/folder

For having cache path as you wish, for all the packages in package.json:

Just be in the directory where package.json is as usual and do

npm install --cache path/to/some/folder

You may not find this in npm documentation but i have tried it with npm 6 and it works. Looks like it works since npm 5 [Refer: How to specify cache folder in npm5 on install command?

Answer 4

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 

Answer 5

In Windows you can simply cd to the desired cache folder and do npm set cache --global