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

Using Windows 7. I had installed nodejs in a different folder (c:\develop\nodejs) to the one that was suggested while installing (C:\Program Files\nodejs) I am totally new to nodejs or npm. i may not be talking the nodejs or npm language. After installing nodejs. I had to do some commands like this in the main nodejs folder

npm init

then I was going to create a local directory (say c:\develop\nodejs\ upload2s3), and create a nodejs package to use as AWS lambda. For this, i went into the local directory (upload2s3), and tried

npm install aws-sdk

though the command behaved like it installed things, this did not do anything in my upload2s3 folder as it was empty. then i just tried this in my local folder.

npm init 

this created some package.json, and may be few other files then i tried

npm install aws-sdk

then it created a node-modules folders inside my local folder (upload2s3) and installed the aws-sdk package. It also updated the package.json file

{
  "name": "uploadtos32",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "aws-sdk": "^2.448.0"
  }
}