title: Homebrew Install Node Location
body: <p>Kinda 2 questions related to each other here.</p>
  
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  <li><p>When doing a brew install node, should I first navigate to the root of whatever folder I'm going to hold all my future web projects/apps then run it?  Or does it not matter where I run the install initially for Node?  Because I notice it creates a node_modules folder in <code>/local/lib/node_modules</code></p></li>
  <li><p>I assume it doesn't matter, and when you start installing node packages using npm install [package] it'll create a separate node_modules folder under the context you're in so lets say <code>/www/MyApplication</code> run npm install and it'll create <code>/www/MyApplication/node_modules</code>....and that the one under <code>/local/lib/node_modules</code> just serves as the one for npm itself because it needs its own root <code>node_modules</code> folder which is how npm runs?</p></li>
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