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title: npm-docs
section: 1
npm docs [<pkgname> [<pkgname> ...]]
alias: home
This command tries to guess at the likely location of a package's
documentation URL, and then tries to open it using the--browser
config param. You can pass multiple
package names at once. If no package name is provided, it will search for apackage.json
in the current folder and use the name
property.
browser
"open"
, Windows: "start"
, Others: "xdg-open"
The browser that is called by npm commands to open websites.
Set to false
to suppress browser behavior and instead print urls to
terminal.
Set to true
to use default system URL opener.
registry
The base URL of the npm registry.
workspace
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:
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
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:
node_modules
tree (install, update, etc.)node_modules
folder. - Commands that doworkspace
config.This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
include-workspace-root
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.