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Install npm packages offline

If you have no internet connection or you have a slow and no reliable connection you can do npm install from cache.

$ npm --cache-min 9999999 install

Motivation

May be you are working in a plane, or in a train, just waiting in the airport, or in a conference and wifi is saturated. But you need to do an npm install of packages.

The easiest trick is the following: install packages from your cache. Probably you already have all packages and you do not care about updates.

How it works?

Shortcut in your .bashrc

Add an alias for offline npm support if you are using bash (Mac or Linux), :

alias npm-offline="npm --cache-min 9999999 "

Use it to install as follows:

$ npm-offline install

Deployment environments

Use always --cache-min flag to ensure faster deployments.

alias npm="npm --cache-min 9999999 "

More information

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