Elm installed package location

Question

Where does Elm install the packages that I added it to the project? I'd like to peek the source code but I don't find the files. I was expecting the files to be in the project folder.

Answer 1

In elm-0.19 packages are installed into the global cache in ~/.elm.

If you try ls ~/.elm/0.19.0/package in your terminal you should see a list of package authors.

For example, to look at the Elm core versions you have, ls ~/.elm/0.19.0/package/elm/core.

Note that because of how https://package.elm-lang.org works, the source code for all modules is required to be on Github and is linked as a "Browse source" link on each module page, so you can also look at it there before you install anything.

Note: It may also be overridden using the ELM_HOME environment variable, which may be worth checking in case it's not where you expect.