diff --git a/config/zsh/login/npm b/config/zsh/login/npm
index 5f8b56b..351ab02 100644
--- a/config/zsh/login/npm
+++ b/config/zsh/login/npm
@@ -1,4 +1,23 @@
 #! zsh
 : ${N_PREFIX:=$HOME/.local}
 : ${NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG:=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/npm/config}
-export N_PREFIX NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG
+: ${NODE_REPL_HISTORY:=$XDG_DATA_HOME/node/repl_history}
+
+# The npm configuration file can't be safely committed to version control,
+# because things like authorisation tokens for publishing packages to npmjs.org
+# live in there. Instead, let's generate a basic npm config here if it doesn't
+# already exist.
+if [[ ! -a $NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG ]]; then
+	mkdir -p $NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG:h
+	> $NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG {
+		echo cache=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/npm
+		echo prefix=$HOME/.local
+		echo store-dir=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/pnpm-store
+	}
+fi
+
+# Node won't create the directory to store its own REPL history if it isn't
+# there? It'll just fail to store REPL history. So let's ensure the directory
+# exists by ourselves.
+mkdir -p $NODE_REPL_HISTORY:h
+export N_PREFIX NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG NODE_REPL_HISTORY