Eliminate npm "update available" message
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
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"