When we install a package using the npm install <package-name> command, npm stores the cache inside the user file system.

The default cache directory is ~/.npm on Posix (mac or linux), or %AppData%/npm-cache on Windows.

To see the right path of %AppData% in windows, you can use the set command (in the console with cmd ) to have a list of Environment variable. Then look for “APPDATA” variable. ( APPDATA = C:\Users\ngubri\AppData\Roaming ) .

Clearing the cache

To clear a cache in npm, we need to run the npm cache clean --force command in our terminal.

npm cache clean --force

clean: It deletes the all data from your cache folder.

You can also verify the cache, by running the following command.

npm cache verify