This 1000 times. Running npm as sudo is a terrible terrible idea. I remember creating a slack channel in our team called 'never run npm with sudo' and ranting

This 1000 times. Running npm as sudo is a terrible terrible idea. I remember creating a slack channel in our team called 'never run npm with sudo' and ranting in dramatic fashion to try and overcome the effect of the printed advice which npm used to output in most failure situations to 'try re-running the command with sudo.' This tended to cause developers new to the ecosystem to re-run the command with sudo and create lots of problems for themselves -- in addition to being an extremely bad security practice. Honestly -- I think npm should be updated to exit without doing anything if it detects its run with root privileges ...