# npm-docs

npm command-line interface

# npm-docs @11.12.0

Open documentation for a package in a web browser

## Table of contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Configuration

- `browser`
- `registry`
- `workspace`
- `workspaces`
- `include-workspace-root`

- See Also

### Synopsis

    npm docs [<pkgname> [<pkgname> ...]]

    alias: home

### Description

This command tries to guess at the likely location of a package's documentation URL, and then tries to open it using the `--browser` config param. You can pass multiple package names at once. If no package name is provided, it will search for a `package.json` in the current folder and use the `name` property.

### Configuration

#### `browser`

- Default: macOS: `"open"`, Windows: `"start"`, Others: `"xdg-open"`
- Type: null, Boolean, or String

The browser that is called by npm commands to open websites.

Set to `false` to suppress browser behavior and instead print urls to terminal.

Set to `true` to use default system URL opener.

#### `registry`

- Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
- Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry.

#### `workspace`

- Default:
- Type: String (can be set multiple times)

Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by this configuration option.

Valid values for the `workspace` config are either:

- Workspace names
- Path to a workspace directory
- Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting all workspaces within that folder)

When set for the `npm init` command, this may be set to the folder of a workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a brand new workspace within the project.

This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.

#### `workspaces`

- Default: null
- Type: null or Boolean

Set to true to run the command in the context of all configured workspaces.

Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like `install` to ignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:

- Commands that operate on the `node_modules` tree (install, update, etc.) will link workspaces into the `node_modules` folder. - Commands that do other things (test, exec, publish, etc.) will operate on the root project, unless one or more workspaces are specified in the `workspace` config.

This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.

#### `include-workspace-root`

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

Include the workspace root when workspaces are enabled for a command.

When false, specifying individual workspaces via the `workspace` config, or all workspaces via the `workspaces` flag, will cause npm to operate only on the specified workspaces, and not on the root project.

This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.

### See Also

- npm view
- npm publish
- npm registry
- npm config
- npmrc
- package.json