How can I solve the connection problem during npm install behind a proxy?

Question

I followed the instruction: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/first-app

I typed mkdir, cd and npm init. They all worked well. One file named package.json appeared.

Then I typed npm install --save-dev electron. Some error occured.

lala@ubu:~/projects/electron/my-app 17:20:34
$ npm install --save-dev electron

> [email protected] postinstall /home/lala/projects/electron/my-app/node_modules/core-js
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"

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> [email protected] postinstall /home/lala/projects/electron/my-app/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

(node:5950) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: RequestError: connect ETIMEDOUT 13.250.177.223:443
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/home/lala/projects/electron/my-app/node_modules/got/source/request-as-event-emitter.js:178:14)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:313:26)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:228:7)
    at ClientRequest.origin.emit (/home/lala/projects/electron/my-app/node_modules/@szmarczak/http-timer/source/index.js:37:11)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:406:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:223:5)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:92:8)
    at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:60:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:81:21)
(node:5950) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:5950) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

+ [email protected]
added 85 packages from 91 contributors and audited 102 packages in 87.419s

2 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

After executing the above instructions, one folder node_modules and one file package-lock.json appeared.

It seemed that I had successfully installed the dependencies. But why one connection error occured?

I can not access github.com(13.250.177.223) directly, but my proxy works.

I have configured proxy as following, but the connection error still exists.

My ~/.bashrc

export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8123/
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8123/
export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123/
export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123/

$ cat ~/.npmrc 
proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123/
http-proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123/
https-proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123/
noproxy=localhost,127.0.0.1,192.168.,10.
strict-ssl=false

node v12.14.1 npm v6.13.7

How can I reduce the error?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Try this solution for installing electron node module from behind proxy.

npx cross-env ELECTRON_GET_USE_PROXY=true GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTPS_PROXY=http://username:password@host:8080 npm install -D electron@latest

• here username:password is your network username and password if required.
• here host:8080 is your proxy server host name and port number.
• cross-env is another node module to support command line variables (optional).