Is there a way to make npm install (the command) to work behind proxy?

Question

Read about a proxy variable in a .npmrc file but it does not work. Trying to avoid manually downloading all require packages and installing.

Answer 1

To setup the http proxy have the -g flag set:

sudo npm config set proxy http://proxy_host:port -g

For https proxy, again make sure the -g flag is set:

sudo npm config set https-proxy http://proxy_host:port -g