'Eliminate npm "update available" message

It seems that more recent versions of npm now produce:

I rely on my Linux (Ubuntu) package manager to make decisions about when to update node and npm. Is there a way to turn this check off?

npm config ls -l seems to have nothing related to this and in .npm in my home dir there appears to be no preferences file.

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Solution 1:^[1]

To disable notifier just run:

npm config set update-notifier false

As Dem Pilafian mentioned - it will add update-notifier=false to ~/.npmrc

To see the current value you need this line

npm config get update-notifier

Read more about npm config here https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/config

Solution 2:^[2]

This was annoying me as well, but there's absolutely no information about it anywhere.

Looking through the code, I've found that the update-notifier-module used by npm has actually a couple of ways to turn it off.

The best one is probably the special config-file located at ~/.config/configstore/update-notifier-npm.json (just search for update-notifier-npm.json). Inside it, simply set "optOut" to true.

The other ways to disable it would be setting an environment-variable called "NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER" or using the argument "--no-update-notifier"

Solution 3:^[3]

update-notifier=false

in .npmrc file seems to do the trick since NPM v6.2.0-next.0 (2018-06-28).

Solution 4:^[4]

if you are to parse the npm command output, one option is to format the output, such as "--json true", "npm list --json true", npm will honour the argument and hide the upgrade message.

Solution 5:^[5]

I created an ansible task that sets optOut to true and lastUpdateCheck to the current date.

In tasks/main.yml:

---

- name: copy update-notifier-npm template file to disable checking for npm updates
  template: src=update-notifier-npm.j2 dest=~/.config/configstore/update-notifier-npm.json

In templates/update-notifier-npm.j2:

{
    "optOut": true,
    "lastUpdateCheck": {{ ansible_date_time.epoch }}000
}

The logic that creates this file in the update-notifier package is here:

https://github.com/yeoman/update-notifier/blob/3fdb21876aa391f9bc7dc35b7d81151677fb533d/index.js#L53

Solution 6:^[6]

For newer (v7+) npm you can use export NPM_CONFIG_UPDATE_NOTIFIER=true to disable via environment

https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/1632

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