npm Issues and Alternatives

This cluster focuses on complaints about npm outages, installation problems, reliability issues, and suggestions for alternatives like pnpm or yarn in the Node.js ecosystem.

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Yuioup Dec 15, 2021 View on HN

npm seems to be down. Maybe related?

fao_ Aug 18, 2020 View on HN

Bold of you to assume it's npm that's being spoken of :D

jayflux Jan 17, 2021 View on HN

What issues were npm giving you?

turminal Dec 27, 2020 View on HN

Giving up sadly appears to be the only option for most use cases of npm and the like.

hnarn Dec 4, 2025 View on HN

npm is certainly not something everyone has.

justinmeiners Aug 18, 2020 View on HN

It's NPM that's the problem, not node.

chimen Jul 23, 2024 View on HN

only if you manage to go past npm install

joshribakoff Oct 11, 2017 View on HN

can you elaborate? How does this help with npm packages

builtbyproxy Sep 6, 2017 View on HN

Yeah it's an NPM module sorry man, it's fairly common on my systems, I can't help out much if they don't have it

blaedj Jan 6, 2018 View on HN

Npm is aware of this, see https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj