Is there a way to make npm install (the command) to work behind proxy?

Question

Read about a proxy variable in a .npmrc file but it does not work. Trying to avoid manually downloading all require packages and installing.

Answer 1

vim ~/.npmrc in your Linux machine and add following. Don't forget to add registry part as this cause failure in many cases.

proxy=http://:
https-proxy=https://:
registry=http://registry.npmjs.org/