npm command-line interface

# npm-help

Get help on npm

## Table of contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Configuration

- `viewer`

- See Also

### Synopsis

    npm help <term> [<terms..>]

    alias: hlep

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

### Description

If supplied a topic, then show the appropriate documentation page.

If the topic does not exist, or if multiple terms are provided, then npm will run the `help-search` command to find a match. Note that, if `help-search` finds a single subject, then it will run `help` on that topic, so unique matches are equivalent to specifying a topic name.

### Configuration

#### `viewer`

- Default: "man" on Posix, "browser" on Windows
- Type: String

The program to use to view help content.

Set to `"browser"` to view html help content in the default web browser.

### See Also

- npm
- npm folders
- npm config
- npmrc
- package.json
- npm help-search