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

Nothing helped me more than disabling antivirus (Windows Defender in my case) I got from 2:30 to 1 minute. With npm-cache package I got to ~30 secs. I tried to use yarn, which is very fast, but was randomly failing in my case.

Answer 2

For pure npm solution, you may try

npm install --prefer-offline --no-audit --progress=false

Prefer offline may not be useful for the first run.