https://github.com/runk/node-inst

Faster npm installs via caching whole node_module dir
https://github.com/runk/node-inst

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Faster npm installs via caching whole node_module dir

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/runk/node-inst
• Owner: runk
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-04-10T01:11:45.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-07-10T04:42:19.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-07T03:41:57.541Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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node-inst

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Faster npm installs via caching whole `node_module` dir

If you do a lot of `npm i` every day you might be annoyed with its slowness. Even if you use built-in

npm cache it still compiles/rebuilds all binary dependencies. Another solutions such as caching proxies or

npm registry mirrors still consume a lot of time for networking / checking / compiling etc.

This module caches *whole* `node_modules` directory and uses check sum of manifest files (*package.json*

and *npm-shrinkwrap.json*), version of *node* and *npm* as a cache key. When you're doing fresh install 

it saves a tarball with all your dependencies and extract it next time when you do install. It's like 

**30-50** times faster than normal install even with "warm" npm cache.

## Installation

    npm install inst -g

## Usage

Instead of using `npm install` you use `inst`. That's it.

    $ inst --help

    Usage: inst [options]

    Options:

      -h, --help            output usage information

      -V, --version         output the version number

      -s, --storage [path]  storage path [~/.npm-inst-cache]

      -t, --ttl [second]    cache lifetime [86400]

      -p, --production      production mode, do not install dev dependencies [false]