How to restore/reset npm configuration to default values?

Question

I have played with npm set and npm config set for several times, now I want to reset to default values (a kind of factory reset).

Does npm provide a command to do that? Or should I delete all configuration files by hands then reinstall it?

I need to do it both on Linux CentOS and on Windows 8.

Answer 1

To reset user defaults

Run this in the command line (or git bash on windows):

echo "" > $(npm config get userconfig) npm config edit 

To reset global defaults

echo "" > $(npm config get globalconfig) npm config --global edit 

If you need sudo then run this instead:

sudo sh -c 'echo "" > $(npm config get globalconfig)' 

Answer 2

For what it's worth, you can reset to default the value of a config entry with npm config delete <key> (or npm config rm <key>, but the usage of npm config rm is not mentioned in npm help config).

Example:

# set registry value npm config set registry "https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry" # revert change back to default npm config delete registry