020-Node Permissions issue with installing electron - > devtools

[Jaczel]

Installing devtools on a fresh machine produces the following error:
Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/.electron' npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
The following forum post suggests installing with unsafe permissions:
npm install -g electron --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
This is not ideal but looks necessary until the electron maintainer has gotten their stuff together.

[hash-bang]

Devtools is a front-end GUI application. You can remove it from the usual Node packages. I'm surprised I left it in there.