npm hangs on any command

Question

I installed last version of Node.js (12.2 x64 windows) After I run cmd as administrator and try to call any npm command (except npm -v

Answer 1

I've finally resolved my issue. According to suggestion from our local read me file

Node.js (with NPM) Note: On windows server machines, instead of node modules been installed at user %APPDATA% path, its better to install at a global path e.g c:\npm. This could be acheived by the npm command: $ npm config set prefix 'c:\npm' This is not required on individual developer's machine.

I've executed npm config set prefix 'c:\npm'.

As result it added prefix="'c:\\npm'" to my .npmrc file

This make node.js really crazy. It takes me about an hour to debug all these js scripts npm.js code.js etc... to find that it calls mkdirp with 'c:\\npm'\etc and it loop process forever.