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timmy
timmy

Reputation: 1758

npm hangs pulling dependencies from artifactory

Our developers pull all of their npm dependencies via an artifactory proxy. The artifactory setup uses a virtual repository that consists of a local npm repository and a remote npm repository.

When developers perform an npm install, the process is slow and often hangs at

fetchMetadata -> network

Any ideas on tracing the source of this issue?

Does artifactory provide a 'trace' api for npm resources, similar to what they have for maven dependencies here maven trace?

Would re-indexing the virtual repository on artifactory help?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1787

Answers (1)

Ale
Ale

Reputation: 353

Struggled with the same thing. By adding the debug flag when running install helped me. I don't know why, might be some race condition or to many half open connections or something else. When the debug flag is added each step takes a fraction of a second longer to complete, and that seems to be enough. Here's an example for a local package:

npm install -d

or a longer example:

sudo npm install -g -ddd eslint-cli

The number of d's tells npm how verbose debug you want. More d's means more info and longer time to execute. One d did it for me, but my laptop is slow to begin with.

Upvotes: 1

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