Node package manger puts various
things on your computer. On
OpenBSD it stores everything under /usr/local and that directory is
owned by root. If you install modules globally (for example,
prettier or eslint) I suggest you set npm prefix to ~/.node and
add update PATH accordingly.
# pkg_add node quirks-3.16 signed on 2018-10-12T15:26:25Z node-8.12.0:flock-20110525p1: ok node-8.12.0:gmake-4.2.1: ok node-8.12.0: ok ... #
$ npm set prefix "$HOME/.node" $ npm install --global prettier $ echo ' export PATH="$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH" ' >> "$HOME/.profile" $© roman zolotarev