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Install the dependencies to the local node_modules folder. In global mode (ie, with -g or --global appended to the command), it installs the current package context (ie, the current working directory) as a global package. By default, npm install will install all modules listed as dependencies in package. json .
Running:
npm install
from inside your app directory (i.e. where package.json is located) will install the dependencies for your app, rather than install it as a module, as described here. These will be placed in ./node_modules relative to your package.json file (it's actually slightly more complex than this, so check the npm docs here).
You are free to move the node_modules dir to the parent dir of your app if you want, because node's 'require' mechanism understands this. However, if you want to update your app's dependencies with install/update, npm will not see the relocated 'node_modules' and will instead create a new dir, again relative to package.json.
To prevent this, just create a symlink to the relocated node_modules from your app dir:
ln -s ../node_modules node_modules
In my case I need to do
sudo npm install
my project is inside /var/www so I also need to set proper permissions.
Just execute
sudo npm i --save
That's all
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