How to fix timeout for packages on `npm install`?

Question

When I run npm install it seems to work fine until part way installing packages. It seems to have no problem with the first half, but then after a while it will fail to be able to reach other packages. I just get the repeating errors, eg:

npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/react-hot-loader
npm info attempt registry request try #3 at 6:43:34 AM
npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/react-tap-event-plugin
npm info attempt registry request try #3 at 6:43:34 AM
npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/react-test-renderer

etc.

It will continue to do this for an hour and and then the install will fail.

The install breaks at a different package each time so I don't think it's a problem with a particular file.

I can access these files fine with my browser and curl.

My work has a firewall but this domain is whitelisted.

Would anyone know what I could do to get this to work or what could be causing it?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You can override the max and min timeout in ~/.npmrc.

// npm config ls -l
// add these 2 lines in ~/.npmrc
fetch-retry-maxtimeout = 6000000
fetch-retry-mintimeout = 1000000