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What to do when `npm install` hangs?
(updated on Jan 25, 2015)
Nodejs and npm is great but make you annoyed when `npm install` hangs. Here are some tips:
First, turn on log:npm config set loglevel infoSecond, download package with wget. npm usually struck at downloading packages and it's much slower than wget. So when you see it fetching some package for a long time in log, download the package with wget and add the file to npm cahe with following command:
npm cache add xxx.tgzThen, cancel the npm install command and re-run it again. It will no longer need to download that package any more.