[BUG] local $PWD .npmrc not used when loading npm config

[zhanwang626]

Hi npm/cli team, I am a software engineer from LinkedIn. Currently handreds of UI engineers suffered from this problem when running npx command. Can we fix this issue instead of running npx with setting --userconfig .npmrc everytime? Thanks!

What / Why

When running npx commands under some JavaScripts project directory, it will not pick up .npmrc from working directory as expected. Instead it will only pulls from ~/.npmrc and ignores any .npmrc in current working directory.

When

• Whenever I run npx command

Where

npx

Current Behavior

npx only pulls from ~/.npmrc and ignores any .npmrc in current working directory.

Expected Behavior

npx can picked up working directory's .npmrc successfully by default.

References

npm/npx#13

[nlf]

we've never loaded an .npmrc file from $PWD by default.

per the documentation:

The four relevant files are:

   o per-project config file (/path/to/my/project/.npmrc)

   o per-user config file (~/.npmrc)

   o global config file ($PREFIX/etc/npmrc)

   o npm builtin config file (/path/to/npm/npmrc)

the bit left out of here is that the per-project config file is that we determine where your project is based on the location of a package.json file, so if you're in a directory that has no package.json but does have a .npmrc it will be ignored. if you include a package.json next to your .npmrc it should be detected as a project and loaded appropriately.

if you already have both files, and your config is still not being loaded that's likely a bug. i'd need more information to help figure it out for you though, at minimum what version of npm/npx you're using, the operating system you're working on, and what your directory structure looks like.