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

In my case, I forgot to set the "http://" in my config files (can be found in C: \Users \ [USERNAME] \ .npmrc) proxy adresses. So instead of having

proxy=http://[IPADDRESS]:[PORTNUMBER]
https-proxy=http://[IPADDRESS]:[PORTNUMBER]

I had

proxy=[IPADDRESS]:[PORTNUMBER]
https-proxy=[IPADDRESS]:[PORTNUMBER]

Which of course did not work, but the error messages didnt help much either...