Manually installing NPM packages

Question

I used the node windows installer v0.8.3 to install nodejs. When I try to install express like this:

npm install express

It\'s not working

Answer 1

It would probably be most convenient long-term to configure NPM to use the aforementioned proxy through one of the following methods (In the following, replace $PROXY with your proxy in the form $PROTOCOL://$DOMAIN:$PORT (e.g. http://proxy.server:80))

A. Set the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy to $PROXY

B.

npm set proxy $PROXY
npm set https-proxy $PROXY