Require global npm as a local node module.
Npm is about 25MB in size now, which is quite a heavy dependency for most modules. Luckily, nearly every node.js user has a npm installed globally.
However, normally, you can't require a global module directly, unless:
- set
NODE_PATHenvironment variable to the folder where global modules are installed. - link the local project with global module to use.
- require a file path instead of a module name.
The last one should be the best way for a third-party module.
If your module needs to depend on npm, why not just use the global one?
var npm = require('global-npm')If the version of npm counts, please use semver to check npm.version by yourself.
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