[QUESTION](arborist) What happened to global lifecycle hooks?

[augustobmoura]

What / Why

Before npm@7 we had global lifecylcle hooks, postinstall and postuninstall script files in the directory /node_modules/.hooks were run for every package being installed or removed, but since npm@7 this scripts don't run at all. This worked for both local node_modules and global $NPM_PREFIX/.npm/lib/node_modules

Is that a bug? Or global hooks were removed once and for all? This was a feature heavily used in https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs and we were actually thinking about a new hook suggestion that would be more useful for our use case

[ruyadorno]

There's discussion being tracked in our RFC repo that is related to this PR: #4260, you can see the minutes for some of the meetings here:

• https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/meetings/2022-01-26.md
• https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/meetings/2022-02-02.md
• https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/meetings/2022-02-16.md