npm docs

Docs for a package in a web browser maybe

Synopsis

npm docs [<pkgname> [<pkgname> ...]]

aliases: home

Description

This command tries to guess at the likely location of a package's documentation URL, and then tries to open it using the --browser config param. You can pass multiple package names at once. If no package name is provided, it will search for a package.json in the current folder and use the name property.

Configuration

browser

  • Default: OS X: "open", Windows: "start", Others: "xdg-open"
  • Type: String or Boolean

The browser that is called by the npm docs command to open websites.

Set to false to suppress browser behavior and instead print urls to terminal.

Set to true to use default system URL opener.

registry

The base URL of the npm package registry.

See Also

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