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title: npm-ls
section: 1
description: List installed packages
---

### Synopsis

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### Description

This command will print to stdout all the versions of packages that are installed, as well as their dependencies when `--all` is specified, in a tree structure.

Note: to get a "bottoms up" view of why a given package is included in the tree at all, use [`npm explain`](/commands/npm-explain).

Positional arguments are `name@version-range` identifiers, which will limit the results to only the paths to the packages named.
Note that nested packages will *also* show the paths to the specified packages.
For example, running `npm ls promzard` in npm's source tree will show:

```bash
npm@@VERSION@ /path/to/npm
└─┬ init-package-json@0.0.4
  └── promzard@0.1.5
```

It will print out extraneous, missing, and invalid packages.

If a project specifies git urls for dependencies these are shown in parentheses after the `name@version` to make it easier for users to recognize potential forks of a project.

The tree shown is the logical dependency tree, based on package dependencies, not the physical layout of your `node_modules` folder.

When run as `ll` or `la`, it shows extended information by default.

### Configuration

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### See Also

* [package spec](/using-npm/package-spec)
* [npm explain](/commands/npm-explain)
* [npm config](/commands/npm-config)
* [npmrc](/configuring-npm/npmrc)
* [npm folders](/configuring-npm/folders)
* [npm explain](/commands/npm-explain)
* [npm install](/commands/npm-install)
* [npm link](/commands/npm-link)
* [npm prune](/commands/npm-prune)
* [npm outdated](/commands/npm-outdated)
* [npm update](/commands/npm-update)