In the Bootstrap documentation after Node.js and Grunt have been installed they say I have to :
Navigate to the root /bootstrap/ directory, then run npm install
What's that mean? I've open a folder with Bootstrap source files but how am I supposed to "run npm install'? I am totally confused.
If you haven't done so, download and install Node.js. The process varies per platform, so refer to the download link.
Once you've installed Node.js, you may need to open a new shell or even reboot for the any new environment variables to take affect.
Once you have Node.js installed, you should be able to:
cd ./bootstrap
npm install
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My development machine has no internet connection and I want to install gulp on my project:
npm install -g gulp
On my machine with internet connection I don't have right to install any piece of software (node or npm).
There is a way to download gulp package (like I do for nuget packages) and to install it to my project?
When installing npm modules globally, they are by default saved to
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\npm
You need to download the modules and manually place them in that folder, and make sure that the path has been added to Path environment variable on your computer.
Since you are not able to download them through npm, simply go to the gulp github repository, and place the content of that repository in a folder named gulp, in the path above.
npm install -g gulp
in your project directory use
npm link gulp
this will create shortcut of gulp module in node_modules so that you don't have to download it, make sure to upvote.
I'm working on an offline network and want to install angular-cli using npm.
I have a zip file of angular-cli and using the latest node and npm version.
I'm using the command: npm install ./angular-cli-master to install angular-cli from the folder.
But I keep getting this error telling me I don't have an internet connection (which is ok).
So how can I install this angular-cli while offline using the zip I downloaded from Github?
Thanks for your help.
You simply copy the package and all dependencies in your node_modules folder, inside the project for local installation, or in the global folder (npm config get prefix to see where it is located) for a global installation.
The behavior of npm install is to check for the dependencies, and install them first. When it doesn't find them installed, nor the local file containing them, it tries to download them.
Since all of those steps fail (you don't have the dependency installed, it isn't available on the expected location, and it can't download it), the installation fails.
You can find the dependency list in the package.json of each module, but since it is recursive, it can take a long time to have everything set right if you do it manually, npm does it by recursion.
For you, the easiest way would be to create a new folder on the connected PC, and inside it npm install angular-cli, zip the folder and transfer it on the offline machine.
Jan 2016 - check out Addy Osmani's recommendations for offline installation of npm packages
May 2017 - as of npm 5, you can pass the --prefer-offline flag to npm install
yarn does this out of the box.
In 2019, I found none recommended approaches were applicable to an "air gapped" server with no internet access.
I found the only solution was to, on windows, using artillery.io as an example:
install the package on a machine with internet access, e.g local dev machine. npm install -g artillery
Browse to C:\Users\{username}\npm
zip up the \node_modules\artillery (e.g artillery.7z)
Copy the zip and the files artillery, artillery.cmd (at root of npm folder) to the server
Paste the two artillery, artillery.cmd to the root of the servers npm folder (C:\Users\{serverusername}\npm)
Extract the zip to C:\Users\{serverusername}\npm\node_modules
This is the complicated version for just one tool. If your local machine's npm folder is relatively light on tools, you could always just zip the whole npm folder and copy + extract it on the server.
I still think it's odd that npm insists on trying to connect to the registry even when using npm pack and npm install -g <tarfile>
Problem: I'd been in similar situation where I can't install the express.js and all other dependencies specifies by package.json on my local machine (offline) using npm due to unavailability of internet connectivity.
Solution: I've a solution that works on Windows(not so sure of other platforms) through which I installed express framework with all the dependencies I required for my project which include cookie-parser, jade, morgan etc.
Steps :
Install all the package(s) on a remote machine which has an internet access.
In my case I'm using Windows on both remote as well as local machines and my requirement was of installation of express.js on local machine . So I run below command on my remote machine to install express.js
C:\Users>npm install -g express-generator`
After installation of express.js I created an app on my remote machine using:
C:\Users\Name\Desktop>express Project`
C:\Users\Name\Desktop\Project>npm install -g =>to install all other dependencies globally*
Now browse to location where npm's global modules are stored, you can view the location by
C:\Users>npm config get prefix
Generally in Windows its
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\
Simply copy the npm and npm-cache folder of your remote machine.
And place both copied folders viz. npm and npm-cache into your local machine on same location thats
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\
the short answer, you can't. Most NPM packages such as #angular/cli need other dependencies and those need child dependencies which get installed when you run npm install
You can, however, install the cli when on the network and use it when offline.
You can find the npm install command documentation here: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install
I am not quite sure and unfortunately, I do not have the chance to test it myself right now, but I would try to either unzip the folder and remove the dot, like that:
npm install /angular-cli-master
(= installing a folder not a zip file)
or just add the zip file ending like that:
npm install ./angular-cli-master.tgz
(= installing a zip-file not a folder, file ending may be .zip or something else, though)
Was test success with node 18.x.x.
The following step guild how to install http-server package
On Online PC:
npm install -g http-server
After finish install, copy http server folder. (Usually locate at: C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules)
On offline PC:
Paste http-server folder. e.g. D:\http-server
npm install -g D:\http-server
Online computer:
npm install -g offline-npm
copy the npm-module to the offline computer and thats it !
Question:
How to install NodeJS package (like grunt-cli) manually without using npm?
Environment:
I have installed Windows 10 with "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".
I have successfully installed NodeJS + Grunt in the "normal" Windows environment without Bash.
NodeJS is installed in the bash environment (Linux-subsystem)
Grunt is not yet installed in the (Linux-subsystem)
Background (why):
My colleague's grunt tasks was developed for an Ubuntu environment and calls bash commands directly which obviously does not work in a "normal" Windows environment. This is an experiment to see if it is possible to run his grunt tasks in "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" however, I am stuck on the part where npm tries to download the packages (network libraries are not yet supported by Linux-subsystem so commands like curl does not work).
I am hoping to "skip" the download part of npm by manually copying the downloaded version from the Windows environment (or GitHub) into the "node_modules" directory in the Linux-subsystem.
However, I do not know how to configure npm that there was a new package added and that it may use that package now.
You can copy all the packages you need with dependencies into node_modules directory and it will work fine.
I think the best way is install packages using npm on a "normal" computer. Then copy the node_modules directory on "normal" computer to your target directory.
Pre-built installer is now available in all platforms in the official website
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
You no need to install modules when node_module dir is available. If project is cloned from version control (GIT) Repository or node_modules folder is not available you should run below command
npm install
Otherwise you need to insert node_modules manually to your project.
you can also download node_modules from other computer and copy modules to your project
npm install --save <PACKAGE NAME>
Then you can find you dependency modules in your console folder.copy those files to your folder.
We may download .msi files from nodejs and install as normal windows application. This shall install both node.exe and npm in system.
In a development environment, I wish to install various version of node and npm in my machine.
I know how to download and install node.exe manually from nodejs. But I couldn't find a way to download npm for Windows manually and extract in the folder I want.
Per npm doc
You can download a zip file from https://github.com/npm/npm/releases, and unpack it in the node_modules\npm\ folder inside node's installation folder.
To upgrade to npm 2, follow the Windows upgrade instructions in the npm Troubleshooting Guide:
https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/Troubleshooting#upgrading-on-windows
You can use Node Version Manager for windows to use different versions of node.js.
Also, you can use, NVMW,
I have nodejs installed on a MBP which runs OSX 10.9, I have installed as a package downloaded from the nodejs website. Then I have installed the MEAN stack following instructions on mean.io.
The commands are:
sudo npm install -g mean-cli
mean init yourNewApp
That works correctly
Now the real issue is when after my app is created I enter the dir using the terminal, and write gulp, and it thows me some errors that some mandatory modules are not found.
The modules are written in the package.json file that mean generated, and they are installed as global modules on ~/.npm
I browsed the folder and there are all the required packages folders, inside the folders there is a package.tgz file which has the code of the package and a package folder which holds a package.json file describing the package itself.
Now I don't understand why the packages are compressed and why if they are installed globaly can not be accessed from gulp on my project folder.
Thanks in advance.
If you install some global module then you better don't put it into the package.json of your app because when you run your app that's the first place where is going to search and if it is there your app is going to look at node_modules folder and if it is not there your app will crash.
My advice is try to install your modules inside your app, npm install your_module --save because your app is gonna be portable and with a simple npm install you will be able to install all your needed packages.
But if you still wanna install global packages you maybe wanna follow this rules:
If you’re installing something that you want to use in your program, using require('whatever'), then install it locally, at the root of your project.
If you’re installing something that you want to use in your shell, on the command line or something, install it globally, so that its binaries end up in your PATH environment variable.
If you have the time to read the link then you will see that there are exceptions and how to handle them.