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    Install npm packages globally without sudo on macOS and Linux

npm installs packages locally within your projects by default. You can also install packages globally (e.g. npm install -g <package>) (useful for command-line apps). However the downside of this is that you need to be root (or use sudo) to be able to install globally.
Here is a way to install packages globally for a given user.
1. Create a directory for global packages

mkdir "${HOME}/.npm-packages"
2. Tell npm where to store globally installed packages

npm config set prefix "${HOME}/.npm-packages"
3. Ensure npm will find installed binaries and man pages

Add the following to your .bashrc/.zshrc:
NPM_PACKAGES="${HOME}/.npm-packages"
export PATH="$PATH:$NPM_PACKAGES/bin"
# Preserve MANPATH if you already defined it somewhere in your config.
# Otherwise, fall back to `manpath` so we can inherit from `/etc/manpath`.
export MANPATH="${MANPATH-$(manpath)}:$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man"