How to use gatsby-cli from local node_modules.

Usually, Gatsby client is installed globally (note the -g parameter).

npm install -g gatsby-cli

But how to use a different version if needed for one project? For example version “5.7.0”.

If it’s not yet installed, install it without -g parameter, so it would not interfere with the globally installed version. It will be installed locally in node_modules.

npm install gatsby-cli@5.7.0

It will install Gatsby client into ./node_modules/gatsby-cli/cli.js . To use it we just have to run it with node.

To test it out we can check the version number of local and global gatsby-cli.

Local:

node ./node_modules/gatsby-cli/cli.js --version

Global:

gatsby --version

They should produce different results if they are at different versions.