npm install save by default

Question

It happened too many times that I forgot to add --save when installing node modules. Is there a way to append this option by default? So that whenever I type npm install <package> the package is added to dependencies in package.json.

Answer 1

I found out that npm has configuration flags. Setting save=true does exactly what I need. You can add it to .npmrc file (in user's home directory) or invoke a command:

npm config set save=true