NPM-HELP(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to npm-help — like, the manual page for npm's very own help command 💅 (manual name is npm-help, in case you were wondering, and yes we're all up in the npm family 🫶)

✨ Synopsis ✨

here's the whole vibe, literally copy-paste this:

npm help <term> [<terms..>]

and the cutest part?? it's also got an alias:

alias: hlep

🫶 heads up queen: this command is unaware of workspaces. like, it does not know them. they are not invited to this party. noted.

💖 Description 💖

so if you hand it a topic, it's gonna show you the appropriate documentation page. slay. iconic. that's the whole point.

but if the topic doesn't exist, or if you're out here providing multiple terms, then npm goes and runs the help-search command to find a match 🔍. and get this — if help-search happens to find, like, a single subject? it'll run help on that topic for you. so a unique match is literally equivalent to specifying a topic name. main character behaviour, honestly 👑

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🎀 Configuration 🎀

👑 viewer 👑

• Default: "man" on Posix, "browser" on Windows
• Type: String

this is the program used to view help content, bestie. that's it. that's the setting.

set it to "browser" if you'd rather vibe with the html help content in your default web browser 🌐💖

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🦋 See Also 🦋

• npm help npm
• npm help folders
• npm help config
• npm help npmrc
• package.json ⟨/configuring-npm/package-json⟩
• npm help help-search

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✨ okay that's the whole page, go forth and be helped 🌈 and a lil sign-off for the girlies who read to the bottom: this was NPM@12.2.1, dated October 2026, filed under NPM-HELP(1) 🎀💜 bye bestie!!