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

As suggested by @Daniel Serodio

You could also include your node_modules folder inside your repository but you should probably zip it first than add to repo, and while installing you can unzip it and just

 npm rebuild

(which works cross platform) it is quite fast.

This would also give you the benefit of full control over all your dependencies.

Also you can set the process flag to false to increase your speed by 2x.

npm set progress=false

Read source for more info

Update: You can also use pnpm for this

npm i -g pnpm

This basically use local cached modules (i have heard its better then YARN)