locally installing node npm packages

Question

I am accessing internet under the wifi network(cyberoam) provided by our college. Whenever I am trying to install any npm package I am getting error like:

npm ERR! If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the

npm ERR! 'proxy' config is set properly. See: 'npm help config'

ECONNREFUSED

I haven't set up any proxies on my Linux machine then also I'm getting error like this. Is there any way to install those packages locally i.e how can I use them directly without installing them as npm packages.

Answer 1

Yes it is possible but I usually don't do that. For a quick and dirty solution:

• Search for the packages repos in github
• Checkout them to your local machine
• And copy each one to the ./node_modules directory inside your node.js application folder.

In the future I certainly recommend you to use npm instead.