npminstall

npminstall

Let npm install fast and easy.

Use as Cli

Install

$ npm install npminstall --g

Usage

Usage:

  npminstall
  npminstall <pkg>
  npminstall <pkg>@<tag>
  npminstall <pkg>@<version>
  npminstall <pkg>@<version range>
  npminstall <folder>
  npminstall <tarball file>
  npminstall <tarball url>
  npminstall <git:// url>
  npminstall <github username>/<github project>

Can specify one or more: npm install ./foo.tgz bar@stable /some/folder
If no argument is supplied, installs dependencies from ./package.json.

Options:

  --production: won't install devDependencies
  --save, --save-dev, --save-optional: save installed dependencies into package.json
  -g, --global: install devDependencies to global directory which specified in '$ npm config get prefix'
  -r, --registry: specify custom registry
  -c, --china: specify in china, will automatically using chinses npm registry and other binary's mirrors

Use as Lib

Install

$ npm install npminstall --save

Usage

const co = require('co');
const npminstall = require('npminstall');

co(function*() {
  yield npminstall({
    // install root dir
    root: process.cwd(),
    // optional packages need to install, default is package.json's dependencies and devDependencies
    // pkgs: [
    //   { name: 'foo', version: '~1.0.0' },
    // ],
    // install to specific directory, default to root
    // targetDir: '/home/admin/.global/lib',
    // link bin to specific directory (for global install)
    // binDir: '/home/admin/.global/bin',
    // registry, default is https://registry.npmjs.org
    // registry: 'https://registry.npmjs.org',
    // debug: false,
    // storeDir: root + '.npminstall',
  });
}).catch(function(err) {
  console.error(err.stack);
});

Support Features

• global install (-g, --global)
• postinstall script
  • support Windows
• node-gyp
  • node-pre-gyp
• bin (yo@1.6.0, fsevents@1.0.6)
• scoped package
• bundleDependencies / bundledDependencies (node-pre-gyp@0.6.19, fsevents@1.0.6)
• optionalDependencies (pm2@1.0.0)
• peerDependencies (co-defer@1.0.0, co-mocha@1.1.2, estraverse-fb@1.3.1)
• deprecate message
• --production mode
• cleanup when install failed
• all types of npm package
  • a) a folder containing a program described by a package.json file (npm install file:eslint-rule)
  • b) a gzipped tarball containing (a) (npm install ./rule.tgz)
  • c) a url that resolves to (b) (npm install https://github.com/indexzero/forever/tarball/v0.5.6)
  • d) a @ that is published on the registry with (c)
  • e) a @ (see npm-dist-tag) that points to (d)
  • f) a that has a "latest" tag satisfying (e)
  • g) a that resolves to (a) (npm install git://github.com/timaschew/cogent#fix-redirects)
• preinstall, install, postinstall scripts
• save, save-dev, save-optional

Different with NPM

This project is inspired by pnpm, and has a similar store structure like pnpm. You can read pnpm vs npm to see the different with npm.

Limitations

• You can't install from shrinkwrap(and don't want to support for now).
• Peer dependencies are a little trickier to deal with(see rule 1 below).
• You can't publish npm modules with bundleDependencies managed by npminstall(because of rule 2 below).
• npminstall will collect all postinstall scripts, and execute them until all dependencies installed.
• If last install failed, better to cleanup node_modules directory before retry.

node_modules directory

Two rules:

1. The latest version of modules will link at options.storeDir's node_modules.
2. Module's dependencies will link at module's node_modules.

e.g.:

• app: { "dependencies": { "a": "1.0.0" } } (root)
• a@1.0.0: { "dependencies": { "c": "2.0.0", "b": "1.0.0" } }
• b@1.0.0: { "dependencies": { "c": "1.0.0" } }
• c@1.0.0 & c@2.0.0: { "dependencies": { } }

app/
└── node_modules/
    ├── .npminstall/
    │   ├── debug/
    │   │   └── 2.2.0/
    │   │       └── debug/
    │   │           └──  node_modules/
    │   │               └── ms -> ../../../../ms/0.7.1/ms
    │   ├── ms/
    │   │   ├── 0.5.1/
    │   │   │   └── ms/
    │   │   └── 0.7.1/
    │   │       └── ms/
    │   └── node_modules/
    │       └── ms -> ../ms/0.7.1/ms
    ├── debug -> .npminstall/debug/2.2.0/debug
    └── ms -> .npminstall/ms/0.5.1/ms

debug@1.0.0 is root package, won't create link at app/node_modules/.npminstall/node_modules/debug@.

Benchmarks

• npminstall@1.2.0
• pnpm@0.18.0
• npm@2.14.12

cli	real	user	sys
npminstall	0m10.908s	0m8.733s	0m4.282s
npminstall with cache	0m8.815s	0m7.492s	0m3.644s
npminstall --no-cache	0m10.279s	0m8.255s	0m3.932s
pnpm	0m13.509s	0m11.650s	0m4.443s
npm	0m28.171s	0m26.085s	0m8.219s
npm with cache	0m20.939s	0m19.415s	0m6.302s

License

MIT