Package Health Score

70 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Inactive
community
Sustainable

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
4.0.1	\|	11/2023	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Influential project

Weekly Downloads (2,846,225)

GitHub Stars: 75
Forks: 10
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package global-directory receives a total of 2,846,225 downloads a week. As such, we scored global-directory popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package global-directory, we found that it has been starred 75 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 0
Funding: Yes

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 5
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 1 year ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of global-directory based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for global-directory is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=18

Age: 1 year
Dependencies: 1 Direct
Versions: 3
Install Size: 8.05 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 5
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

global-directory has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

global-directory

Get the directory of globally installed packages and binaries

Uses the same resolution logic as npm and yarn.

Install

npm install global-directory

Usage

import globalDirectory from 'global-directory';

console.log(globalDirectory.npm.prefix);
//=> '/usr/local'

console.log(globalDirectory.npm.packages);
//=> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'

console.log(globalDirectory.npm.binaries);
//=> '/usr/local/bin'

console.log(globalDirectory.yarn.packages);
//=> '/Users/sindresorhus/.config/yarn/global/node_modules'

API

globalDirectory

npm

yarn

packages

The directory with globally installed packages.

Equivalent to npm root --global.

binaries

The directory with globally installed binaries.

Equivalent to npm bin --global.

prefix

The directory with directories for packages and binaries. You probably want either of the above.

Equivalent to npm prefix --global.

import-global - Import a globally installed module
resolve-global - Resolve the path of a globally installed module
is-installed-globally - Check if your package was installed globally

global-directory dependencies

ini

global-directory development dependencies

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FAQs

What is global-directory?

Get the directory of globally installed packages and binaries. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for global-directory, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is global-directory popular?

The npm package global-directory receives a total of 2,846,225 weekly downloads. As such, global-directory popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is global-directory well maintained?

We found indications that global-directory is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is global-directory safe to use?

The npm package global-directory was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 24 December-2024, at 04:17 (UTC).

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