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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>npm-rebuild</title><style>body { background-color: #ffffff; color: #24292e; margin: 0; line-height: 1.5; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji";}#rainbar { height: 10px; background-image: linear-gradient(139deg, #fb8817, #ff4b01, #c12127, #e02aff);} a { text-decoration: none; color: #0366d6;}a:hover { text-decoration: underline;} pre { margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em; border: solid 1px #e1e4e8; border-radius: 6px; display: block; overflow: auto; white-space: pre; background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #393a34;}code { font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 85%; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #393a34;}pre > code { padding: 0; background-color: inherit; color: inherit;}h1, h2, h3 { font-weight: 600;} #logobar { background-color: #333333; margin: 0 auto; padding: 1em 4em;}#logobar .logo { float: left;}#logobar .title { font-weight: 600; 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text-align: left; border-right: 1px solid #e1e4e8; border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e4e8;} table th:last-child,table td:last-child { border-right: none;} table tbody tr:last-child td { border-bottom: none;} table th { font-weight: 600; background-color: #f6f8fa;} table code { white-space: nowrap;} </style></head><body><div id="banner"><div id="rainbar"></div><div id="logobar"><svg class="logo" role="img" height="32" width="32" viewBox="0 0 700 700"><polygon fill="#cb0000" points="0,700 700,700 700,0 0,0"></polygon><polygon fill="#ffffff" points="150,550 350,550 350,250 450,250 450,550 550,550 550,150 150,150"></polygon></svg><div class="title">npm command-line interface</div></div></div> <section id="content"><header class="title"><h1 id="----npm-rebuild----11110"> <span>npm-rebuild</span> <span class="version">@11.11.0</span></h1><span class="description">Rebuild a package</span></header> <section id="table_of_contents"><h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of contents</h2><div id="_table_of_contents"><ul><li><a href="#synopsis">Synopsis</a></li><li><a href="#description">Description</a></li><li><a href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li><ul><li><a href="#global"><code>global</code></a></li><li><a href="#bin-links"><code>bin-links</code></a></li><li><a href="#foreground-scripts"><code>foreground-scripts</code></a></li><li><a href="#ignore-scripts"><code>ignore-scripts</code></a></li><li><a href="#workspace"><code>workspace</code></a></li><li><a href="#workspaces"><code>workspaces</code></a></li><li><a href="#include-workspace-root"><code>include-workspace-root</code></a></li><li><a href="#install-links"><code>install-links</code></a></li></ul><li><a href="#see-also">See Also</a></li></ul></div></section> <div id="_content"><h3 id="synopsis">Synopsis</h3><pre><code class="language-bash">npm rebuild [<package-spec>] ...] alias: rb</code></pre><h3 id="description">Description</h3><p>This command does the following:</p><ol><li>Execute lifecycle scripts (<code>preinstall</code>, <code>install</code>, <code>postinstall</code>, <code>prepare</code>)</li><li>Links bins depending on whether bin links are enabled</li></ol><p>This command is particularly useful in scenarios including but not limited to:</p><ol><li>Installing a new version of <strong>node.js</strong>, where you need to recompile all your C++ add-ons with the updated binary.</li><li>Installing with <code>--ignore-scripts</code> and <code>--no-bin-links</code>, to explicitly choose which packages to build and/or link bins.</li></ol><p>If one or more package specs are provided, then only packages with a name and version matching one of the specifiers will be rebuilt.</p><p>Usually, you should not need to run <code>npm rebuild</code> as it is already done for you as part of npm install (unless you suppressed these steps with <code>--ignore-scripts</code> or <code>--no-bin-links</code>).</p><p>If there is a <code>binding.gyp</code> file in the root of your package, then npm will use a default install hook:</p><pre><code>"scripts": { "install": "node-gyp rebuild"}</code></pre><p>This default behavior is suppressed if the <code>package.json</code> has its own <code>install</code> or <code>preinstall</code> scripts.It is also suppressed if the package specifies <code>"gypfile": false</code></p><h3 id="configuration">Configuration</h3><h4 id="global"><code>global</code></h4><ul><li>Default: false</li><li>Type: Boolean</li></ul><p>Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the <code>prefix</code>folder instead of the current working directory. See<a href="../configuring-npm/folders.html">folders</a> for more on the differences in behavior.</p><ul><li>packages are installed into the <code>{prefix}/lib/node_modules</code> folder, insteadof the current working directory.</li><li>bin files are linked to <code>{prefix}/bin</code></li><li>man pages are linked to <code>{prefix}/share/man</code></li></ul><h4 id="bin-links"><code>bin-links</code></h4><ul><li>Default: true</li><li>Type: Boolean</li></ul><p>Tells npm to create symlinks (or <code>.cmd</code> shims on Windows) for packageexecutables.</p><p>Set to false to have it not do this. This can be used to work around thefact that some file systems don't support symlinks, even on ostensibly Unixsystems.</p><h4 id="foreground-scripts"><code>foreground-scripts</code></h4><ul><li>Default: <code>false</code> unless when using <code>npm pack</code> or <code>npm publish</code> where itdefaults to <code>true</code></li><li>Type: Boolean</li></ul><p>Run all build scripts (ie, <code>preinstall</code>, <code>install</code>, and <code>postinstall</code>)scripts for installed packages in the foreground process, sharing standardinput, output, and error with the main npm process.</p><p>Note that this will generally make installs run slower, and be much noisier,but can be useful for debugging.</p><h4 id="ignore-scripts"><code>ignore-scripts</code></h4><ul><li>Default: false</li><li>Type: Boolean</li></ul><p>If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files.</p><p>Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as<code>npm start</code>, <code>npm stop</code>, <code>npm restart</code>, <code>npm test</code>, and <code>npm run</code> will stillrun their intended script if <code>ignore-scripts</code> is set, but they will <em>not</em>run any pre- or post-scripts.</p><h4 id="workspace"><code>workspace</code></h4><ul><li>Default:</li><li>Type: String (can be set multiple times)</li></ul><p>Enable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of thecurrent project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined bythis configuration option.</p><p>Valid values for the <code>workspace</code> config are either:</p><ul><li>Workspace names</li><li>Path to a workspace directory</li><li>Path to a parent workspace directory (will result in selecting allworkspaces within that folder)</li></ul><p>When set for the <code>npm init</code> command, this may be set to the folder of aworkspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as abrand new workspace within the project.</p><p>This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.</p><h4 id="workspaces"><code>workspaces</code></h4><ul><li>Default: null</li><li>Type: null or Boolean</li></ul><p>Set to true to run the command in the context of <strong>all</strong> configuredworkspaces.</p><p>Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like <code>install</code> toignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:</p><ul><li>Commands that operate on the <code>node_modules</code> tree (install, update, etc.)will link workspaces into the <code>node_modules</code> folder. - Commands that doother things (test, exec, publish, etc.) will operate on the root project,<em>unless</em> one or more workspaces are specified in the <code>workspace</code> config.</li></ul><p>This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.</p><h4 id="include-workspace-root"><code>include-workspace-root</code></h4><ul><li>Default: false</li><li>Type: Boolean</li></ul><p>Include the workspace root when workspaces are enabled for a command.</p><p>When false, specifying individual workspaces via the <code>workspace</code> config, orall workspaces via the <code>workspaces</code> flag, will cause npm to operate only onthe specified workspaces, and not on the root project.</p><p>This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.</p><h4 id="install-links"><code>install-links</code></h4><ul><li>Default: false</li><li>Type: Boolean</li></ul><p>When set file: protocol dependencies will be packed and installed as regulardependencies instead of creating a symlink. This option has no effect onworkspaces.</p><h3 id="see-also">See Also</h3><ul><li><a href="../using-npm/package-spec.html">package spec</a></li><li><a href="../commands/npm-install.html">npm install</a></li></ul></div> <footer id="edit"><a href="https://github.com/npm/cli/edit/latest/docs/lib/content/commands/npm-rebuild.md"><svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16" height="16" fill="currentcolor" style="vertical-align: text-bottom; margin-right: 0.3em;"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M11.013 1.427a1.75 1.75 0 012.474 0l1.086 1.086a1.75 1.75 0 010 2.474l-8.61 8.61c-.21.21-.47.364-.756.445l-3.251.93a.75.75 0 01-.927-.928l.929-3.25a1.75 1.75 0 01.445-.758l8.61-8.61zm1.414 1.06a.25.25 0 00-.354 0L10.811 3.75l1.439 1.44 1.263-1.263a.25.25 0 000-.354l-1.086-1.086zM11.189 6.25L9.75 4.81l-6.286 6.287a.25.25 0 00-.064.108l-.558 1.953 1.953-.558a.249.249 0 00.108-.064l6.286-6.286z"></path></svg>Edit this page on GitHub</a></footer></section> </body></html>