nodejs npm global config missing on windows
node.js, npm, windows
Solution
It looks like the files `npm` uses to edit its config files are not created on a clean install, as `npm` has a default option for each one. This is why you can still get options with `npm config get <option>`: having those files only overrides the defaults, it doesn't create the options from scratch.
I had never touched my `npm config` stuff before today, even though I had had it for months now. None of the files were there yet, such as `~/.npmrc` (on a Windows 8.1 machine with `Git Bash`), yet I could run `npm config get <something>` and, if it was a correct `npm` option, it returned a value. When I ran `npm config set <option> <value>`, the file `~/.npmrc` seemed to be created automatically, with the option & its value as the only non-commented-out line.
As for deleting options, it looks like this just sets the value back to the default value, or does nothing if that option was never set or was unset & never reset. Additionally, if that option is the only explicitly set option, it looks like `~/.npmrc` is deleted, too, and recreated if you `set` anything else later.
In your case (assuming it is still the same over a year later), it looks like you never set the `proxy` option in `npm`. Therefore, as `npm`'s `config` help page says, it is set to whatever your `http_proxy` (case-insensitive) environment variable is. This means there is nothing to `delete`, unless you want to "delete" your HTTP proxy, although you could `set` the option or environment variable to something else and hope neither breaks your set-up somehow.
Problem
I can't find at all where npm has its global settings stored. npm config get userconfig ``` C:\Users\Jack\.npmrc ``` npm config get globalconfig ``` C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc ``` There's no files at either of these paths and yet npm config get proxy -> returns my proxy url for work. which I want to delete. npm config -g delete proxy ``` npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, unlink 'C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc' npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200 npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "config" "-g" "delete" "proxy" npm ERR! cwd C:\f\Dropbox\apps npm ERR! node -v v0.8.22 npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.14 npm ERR! path C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno 34 npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! C:\f\Dropbox\apps\npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 ```