list all globally installed modules with one command in ubuntu

Question

I'm working on ubuntu 14.04, Is there any way to print all global modules (installed using npm) to the command line. How can I do this?

Blanchard

npm list -g ? – Swearword

Answer 1

The below command will list all your globally installed modules on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

npm ls -g --depth 0

Blanchard

why is there such a massive difference with and without the --depth 0 option? Do I or don't I have all these dependencies installed globally as well? – Intertype

The difference with --depth 0 is that with that option you are only listing packages that are directly globally installed. Without the depth option you are also listing all the packages that are dependencies of those packages. – Eveleen

Answer 2

To list all globally installed modules run:

npm ls -g --depth 0

or yarn

yarn global ls --depth 0

Extras:

To get a short module description run:

npm ll -g --depth 0

To see the path of where the global modules are installed run:

npm ls -gp --depth 0

Peephole

Answer 3

My preferred method is to use the npmlist package, which can be installed using npm i -g npmlist. Then you just use the npmlist command to get a formatted and color listing with versions of all global packages.

$ npmlist

Installed npm packages: (global)

@vue/cli.................[3.5.1]
browser-sync............[2.26.3]
degit....................[2.1.3]
eslint..................[5.15.3]
eslint-plugin-vue........[5.2.2]
jsonlint.................[1.6.3]
npm......................[6.9.0]
npmlist..................[3.1.2]
prettier................[1.16.4]
serverless..............[1.39.1]

Examinee

Answer 4

Much faster command than the selected answer, if you care only about listing package name and not the package version:

ls -l $(npm root -g)

Antoinetteanton

This doesn’t work for packages like @postlight/mercury-parser. – Balcony

Answer 5

To see the list of all globally installed modules type the following command:

npm ls -g --depth 0

this will give you the list of all the installed modules along with their versions. Even unmet dependencies if any, will also be listed.

Cluck

It is the exact same command as in the accepted answer (which is the most visible answer) – Antoinetteanton

Answer 6

The previous global and local flags are now deprecated. The preferred syntax today is as follows:

npm list --location=global --depth 0
npm ls   --location=global --depth 0
npm la   --location=global --depth 0
npm ll   --location=global --depth 0

npmlist=$(npm list --location=global --depth 0)
npmlist

Sillimanite