NPM will not install packages locally, update package.json, nor update package.lock. It's a very perplexing issue honestly. Pseudo-steps to reproduce are:
- mkdir testFolder
- cd testFolder
- npm init -> use defaults
- npm install dotenv
I'm running Windows 11.
- I tried running with Developer mode on and off
- I tried installing node (16.15.1)/npm via NVM4W (1.1.9) and using
npm install <package> - I uninstalled NVM4W and installed node (18.4.0) directly
I'm kind of at a loss for things to try now. It feels like there's some Windows setting somewhere I'm missing that's causing all these problems
CodePudding user response：
For me, it turned out that I had modified my C:\Users{user}.npmrc file which had the setting "location=global" set. I deleted the setting and it all worked.
This got set, I believe, because I did npm config set local=global earlier due to a deprecation warning I received using an older version of npm.