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

Use below command at cmd or GIT Bash or other prompt

$ npm config set proxy "http://192.168.1.101:4128"

$ npm config set https-proxy "http://192.168.1.101:4128"

where 192.168.1.101 is proxy ip and 4128 is port. change according to your proxy settings. its works for me.

Answer 2

Though there are already many good advice, for my environment(Windows 7, using PowerShell) and the last version available of node.js ( v8.1.2 ) all the above did not worked, except when I followed brunowego settings.

So check your settings with :

npm config list

Settings behind a proxy:

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/
npm config set http-proxy http://username:password@ip:port
npm config set https-proxy http://username:password@ip:port
npm config set proxy http://username:password@ip:port
npm set strict-ssl false

Hope this will save time to someone

Answer 3

npm config set proxy <http://...>:<port_number>
npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

This solved my problem.

Answer 4

This worked for me. Set the http and https proxy.

• npm config set proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080
• npm config set https-proxy http://proxy.company.com:8080

Answer 5

My issue came down to a silly mistake on my part. As I had quickly one day dropped my proxies into a windows *.bat file (http_proxy, https_proxy, and ftp_proxy), I forgot to escape the special characters for the url-encoded domain\user (%5C) and password having the question mark '?' (%3F). That is to say, once you have the encoded command, don't forget to escape the '%' in the bat file command.

I changed

set http_proxy=http://domain%5Cuser:password%3F@myproxy:8080

to

set http_proxy=http://domain%%5Cuser:password%%3F@myproxy:8080

Maybe it's an edge case but hopefully it helps someone.