node-inst
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]