NPM-HELP-SEARCH(1)

💅 NAME

npm-help-search — search the npm help documentation, bestie 🔍✨

Ok so like, this is the little command that goes digging through the npm docs for you. It's npm manual name NPM-HELP-SEARCH(1) if you're keeping track, and she's got one job: find the thing you're looking for. Let's go 🫶

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🌸 Synopsis

npm help-search <text>

⚠️ Heads up: this command is unaware of workspaces. No cap, she does not know they exist.

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🎀 Description

So here's the vibe ✨ — this command searches the npm markdown documentation files for the terms you hand it, and then lists the results sorted by relevance. It's giving search engine but make it npm.

If only one result is found, then it will show that help topic. Like, why make a list when there's literally one answer, right? Slay.

And here's the cute part: if the argument to npm help is not a known help topic, then it will call help-search. So she's kind of the backup dancer in that scenario 🕺 Lowkey / highkey, it is rarely if ever necessary to call this command directly — she usually gets summoned by npm help herself. Main character energy, but like, off-screen.

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💅 Configuration

long

• Default: false
• Type: Boolean

Show extended information in ls, search, and help-search. That's it, that's the whole config 👑

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🦋 See Also

• npm help npm
• npm help help

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✿૮( ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ )ა✿ and that's a wrap, bestie! This icon was brought to you by npm@12.2.1 on October 2026 — date stamp and everything, periodt 🎀💖