npm command-line interface

# npm-ls

List installed packages

## Table of contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Configuration

- json
- long
- parseable
- global
- depth
- prod / production
- dev / development
- only
- link
- unicode

- See Also

### Synopsis

    npm ls [[<@scope>/]<pkg> ...]

    aliases: list, la, ll

### Description

This command will print to stdout all the versions of packages that are installed, as well as their dependencies, in a tree-structure.

Positional arguments are `name@version-range` identifiers, which will limit the results to only the paths to the packages named. Note that nested packages will also show the paths to the specified packages. For example, running `npm ls promzard` in npm’s source tree will show:

        npm@7.0.15 /path/to/npm
        └─┬ init-package-json@0.0.4
          └── promzard@0.1.5

It will print out extraneous, missing, and invalid packages.

If a project specifies git urls for dependencies these are shown in parentheses after the name@version to make it easier for users to recognize potential forks of a project.

The tree shown is the logical dependency tree, based on package dependencies, not the physical layout of your node_modules folder.

When run as `ll` or `la`, it shows extended information by default.

### Configuration

#### json

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

Show information in JSON format.

#### long

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

Show extended information.

#### parseable

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

Show parseable output instead of tree view.

#### global

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

List packages in the global install prefix instead of in the current project.

#### depth

- Type: Int

Max display depth of the dependency tree.

#### prod / production

- Type: Boolean
- Default: false

Display only the dependency tree for packages in `dependencies`.

#### dev / development

- Type: Boolean
- Default: false

Display only the dependency tree for packages in `devDependencies`.

#### only

- Type: String

When “dev” or “development”, is an alias to `dev`.

When “prod” or “production”, is an alias to `production`.

#### link

- Type: Boolean
- Default: false

Display only dependencies which are linked

#### unicode

- Type: Boolean
- Default: true

Whether to represent the tree structure using unicode characters. Set it to false in order to use all-ansi output.

### See Also

- npm config
- npmrc
- npm folders
- npm explain
- npm install
- npm link
- npm prune
- npm outdated
- npm update