NPM-COMPLETION(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so welcome to npm-completion(1), bestie — this is the manual for Tab Completion for npm, aka the little icon that makes your shell finish npm commands for you. 💅✨

🌸 Synopsis 🌸

npm completion

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

💖 Description 💖

This command enables tab-completion in all npm commands. That’s literally the whole vibe. 🫶

The synopsis up there loads the completions into your current shell. Adding it to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc will make the completions available everywhere:

npm completion >> ~/.bashrc
npm completion >> ~/.zshrc

You may of course also pipe the output of npm completion to a file such as /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm or /etc/bash_completion.d/npm if you have a system that will read that file for you. 🎀

When COMP_CWORD, COMP_LINE, and COMP_POINT are defined in the environment, npm completion acts in “plumbing mode”, and outputs completions based on the arguments. 🔧✨

🦋 See Also 🦋

• npm help developers
• npm help npm

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mwah 💋 — source/version: NPM@12.2.1, dated October 2026. That’s the whole page, bestie; go make your shell slay. 🎀👑