Where are the published packages stored on my local machine?

[tearingItUp786]

Hey all,

I'm running through a workshop on frontendmasters and we're using verdaccio to set up our own local npm proxy server. I did notice one thing though, if I uninstall and reinstall verdaccio, the packages I published are still around... I can't find where these published packages are saved on my local machine. Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm using a mac os and I'm installing packages globally with volta.

[DanielRuf]

See https://verdaccio.org/docs/en/cli#default-storage-location

We use the $XDG_DATA_HOME environment by variable default to locate the storage by default which should be the same as $HOME/.local/share. If you are using a custom storage, this location is irrelevant.

So by default it is a folder storage in the path of the configuration which is shown when verdaccio starts.

[juanpicado]

In addition, for Windows is on AppData folder https://www.howtogeek.com/318177/what-is-the-appdata-folder-in-windows/

[tearingItUp786]

I tried to echo out $XDG_DATA_HOME in my terminal and I got an empty output so it's hard for me to figure out where this is.

For context, I installed verdaccio globally with volta

[DanielRuf]

When XDG_DATA_HOME is not set, ~/.local/share is used.

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/39062/159964

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

So the path for data (not config) is ~/.local/share.
For me the storage folder is at /Users/danielruf/.local/share/verdaccio/storage.