npm install gets stuck at fetchMetadata

Question

I\'m currently unable to run npm install in any project since today. I\'m running node v8.2.1 & npm 5.3.0 (installed via nvm).

When typing npm

Answer 1

This is how I resolved this after spending half an hour:

1. npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ --global
2. npm cache clear --force
3. setting package-lock.json to {} only
4. npm install --verbose

node: v12.14.1 npm: v6.13.4

This issue occure when I tried running ng update on angular 6 app to update it to angular 9.