what is ~/.npm dir for?

Question

I have installed the global npm package jslint and it lives here

$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/jslint
lrwxr-xr-x  1 lust  admin  40 Feb 12 15:31 /usr/loc         


        

Answer 1

~/.npm is a cache that npm uses to avoid re-downloading the same package multiple times. There's no harm in removing it. You can empty it with the command:

npm cache clean