How I Avoid Installing npm Packages Globally

First, I take the installations instructions, but instead of installing globally, I install as a dev dependency inside my project (webpack used for this example):

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Second, I check the node_modules bin directory to confirm that I have the webpack binary

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That directory contains symlinks to all the binaries installed with npm for a specific project

Third, I create an npm script for easily running the binary found in step 2

in package.json, add the following to your package.json file in your scripts:

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Here’s how it looks in a project I setup:

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Now you can run the following command from any directory in your project and it will run webpack for you

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