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global-directory

5.0.076M downloads/mosindresorhus/global-directory ↗New releases in your daily digest, changelog included.

Get the directory of globally installed packages and binaries

Last release 8 months ago
02 Feb 2026
Too new to tell
only 2 release windows
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 3 of 3 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
3 years old
3 releases · first in 2023

Release timeline

3 releases since 2023

2023202420252026

Releases

5.0.02 Feb 2026
Fix default npm prefix for Homebrew installations 84bf1cc
Breaking

Require Node.js 20 7379c96

Improvements

Add pnpm support da7a3c7

Fixes

Fix default npm prefix for Homebrew installations 84bf1cc

Fix handling of tilde in npm prefix path 1d74209

Fix npm prefix test failing under nvm dd04056

Fix Yarn global directory resolution on Linux dd40979

v4.0.1...v5.0.0
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4.0.1

20232026

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6 Nov 2023

Fix typo 212fedc v4.0.0...v4.0.1

Fix typo 212fedc

v4.0.0...v4.0.1

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▸▾4.0.06 Nov 2023

Rename package from global-dirs to global-directory 39ee7fa

Breaking

Rename package from global-dirs to global-directory 39ee7fa
Require Node.js 18 b9f6f26

v3.0.1...v4.0.0

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