This command runs the npm build command on the matched folders. This is
useful when you install a new version of node, and must recompile all your
C++ addons with the new binary. It is also useful when installing with
--ignore-scripts and --no-bin-links, to explicitly choose which
packages to build and/or link bins.
If one or more package specs are provided, then only packages with a
name and version matching one of the specifiers will be rebuilt.
Configuration
global
Default: false
Type: Boolean
Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the prefix
folder instead of the current working directory. See
folders for more on the differences in behavior.
packages are installed into the {prefix}/lib/node_modules folder, instead
of the current working directory.
bin files are linked to {prefix}/bin
man pages are linked to {prefix}/share/man
bin-links
Default: true
Type: Boolean
Tells npm to create symlinks (or .cmd shims on Windows) for package
executables.
Set to false to have it not do this. This can be used to work around the
fact that some file systems don't support symlinks, even on ostensibly Unix
systems.
foreground-scripts
Default: false
Type: Boolean
Run all build scripts (ie, preinstall, install, and postinstall)
scripts for installed packages in the foreground process, sharing standard
input, output, and error with the main npm process.
Note that this will generally make installs run slower, and be much noisier,
but can be useful for debugging.
ignore-scripts
Default: false
Type: Boolean
If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files.
Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as
npm start, npm stop, npm restart, npm test, and npm run-script
will still run their intended script if ignore-scripts is set, but they
will not run any pre- or post-scripts.
workspace
Default:
Type: String (can be set multiple times)
Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the
current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by
this configuration option.
Valid values for the workspace config are either:
Workspace names
Path to a workspace directory
Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting all
workspaces within that folder)
When set for the npm init command, this may be set to the folder of a
workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a
brand new workspace within the project.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
workspaces
Default: null
Type: null or Boolean
Set to true to run the command in the context of all configured
workspaces.
Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like install to
ignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:
Commands that operate on the node_modules tree (install, update, etc.)
will link workspaces into the node_modules folder. - Commands that do
other things (test, exec, publish, etc.) will operate on the root project,
unless one or more workspaces are specified in the workspace config.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
include-workspace-root
Default: false
Type: Boolean
Include the workspace root when workspaces are enabled for a command.
When false, specifying individual workspaces via the workspace config, or
all workspaces via the workspaces flag, will cause npm to operate only on
the specified workspaces, and not on the root project.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
install-links
Default: false
Type: Boolean
When set file: protocol dependencies that exist outside of the project root
will be packed and installed as regular dependencies instead of creating a
symlink. This option has no effect on workspaces.