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title: npm-team
section: 1

description: Manage organization teams and team memberships

Synopsis

npm team create <scope:team> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team destroy <scope:team> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team add <scope:team> <user> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team rm <scope:team> <user> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team ls <scope>|<scope:team>

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

Description

Used to manage teams in organizations, and change team memberships. Does not
handle permissions for packages.

Teams must always be fully qualified with the organization/scope they belong to
when operating on them, separated by a colon (:). That is, if you have a
newteam team in an org organization, you must always refer to that team
as @org:newteam in these commands.

If you have two-factor authentication enabled in auth-and-writes mode, then
you can provide a code from your authenticator with [--otp <otpcode>].
If you don't include this then you will be taken through a second factor flow based
on your authtype.

• create / destroy:
  Create a new team, or destroy an existing one. Note: You cannot remove the
  developers team, learn more.

Here's how to create a new team newteam under the org org:

bash npm team create @org:newteam

You should see a confirming message such as: +@org:newteam once the new
team has been created.

• add:
  Add a user to an existing team.

Adding a new user username to a team named newteam under the org org:

bash npm team add @org:newteam username

On success, you should see a message: username added to @org:newteam

• rm:
  Using npm team rm you can also remove users from a team they belong to.

Here's an example removing user username from newteam team
in org organization:

bash npm team rm @org:newteam username

Once the user is removed a confirmation message is displayed:
username removed from @org:newteam

• ls:
  If performed on an organization name, will return a list of existing teams
  under that organization. If performed on a team, it will instead return a list
  of all users belonging to that particular team.

Here's an example of how to list all teams from an org named org:

bash npm team ls @org

Example listing all members of a team named newteam:

bash npm team ls @org:newteam

Details

npm team always operates directly on the current registry, configurable from
the command line using --registry=<registry url>.

You must be a team admin to create teams and manage team membership, under
the given organization. Listing teams and team memberships may be done by
any member of the organization.

Organization creation and management of team admins and organization members
is done through the website, not the npm CLI.

To use teams to manage permissions on packages belonging to your organization,
use the npm access command to grant or revoke the appropriate permissions.

Configuration

registry

• Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
• Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry.

otp

• Default: null
• Type: null or String

This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's needed
when publishing or changing package permissions with npm access.

If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time
password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.

parseable

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

Output parseable results from commands that write to standard output. For
npm search, this will be tab-separated table format.

json

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.

• In npm pkg set it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before
  saving them to your package.json.

Not supported by all npm commands.

See Also

• npm access
• npm config
• npm registry