NPM Modules Installed in Local Directory

[Bluejay47]

npm.install() seems to install modules in the user directory. Is there some way in pixiedust_node to refer to modules installed in the same directory as the notebook file or control the installation location of npm.install()?

[Bluejay47]

It turned out to be pretty trivial to enable this in the code by doing something along the lines of

# Node home directory
        if hasattr(NodeBase, 'node_local') and NodeBase.node_local == True:
            self.node_home = os.getcwd()  
        else:
            self.node_home = os.path.join(home, 'node')
            if not os.path.exists(self.node_home):
                os.makedirs(self.node_home)

...although I haven't tried to figure out how to pass in the value to enable the local directory use at init time. Is there any interest adding this functionality? I could make an attempt to implement something and make a pull request if there is.