How to install apps from Mac App Store to external drive?

The App Store is configured to install applications into the /Application folder on the same drive as the App Store application is installed. It won't install to externally mounted SSD.

percy42 wrote:

Like external SSDs.

What the user is describing appears to be the thinking of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

Where you can do this and or use and External Drive as Extra RAM

This is not the case in Apple macOS as has already alluded to in an earlier posting