Permission denied when installing npm module

Question

I\'m getting a strange permission error when I try to install an npm module. I\'m starting it with sudo so I\'m sure I do have access, but for some reason it ke

Answer 1

A rule of thumb as I have learned is to never run npm install with sudo. That creates items with root being the owner as opposed to your username.

Answer 2

Give full permission to node modules folder

command

sudo chmod 777 -R node_modules/

Answer 3

You need to reclaim ownership of the .npm directory.

sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm

and need the write permission in node_modules directory:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/lib/node_modules