Speeding up the npm install

Question

I am trying to speed up the npm install during the build process phase. My package.json has the list of packages pretty much with locked revisions in it. I\'ve also configured t

Answer 1

You could also include your node_modules folder inside your repository (you are probably using git), and just npm rebuild (which works cross platform) on build/deploy processes, and is pretty fast.

This would also give you the benefit of full control over all your dependencies (I know that's what shrinkwrap usually should be used for)

Edit:

Also you can set the progress flag to false to increase your speed by at least 20%. This works only with npm@v3.x.x, and there will be hopefully fixes for that soon (see second link)

npm set progress=false

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