npm gets stuck on fetchMetadata -> network

Question

My npm is getting stuck a lot, whether its npm install from package.json or individual packages.

Right now, I\'m not even able to sudo npm install

Answer 1

For me it was double temp directories in Windows.

Open a command prompt and type:

echo %TEMP%

You should receive path to a single directory. If you receive multiple directories (I received C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp;C:\xampp\php) this might be the problem. You can fix it using this command:

SET TEMP=""

where might be the first path (before semicolon, that means C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp in my case).