npm ERR! code EAI_AGAIN error when trying to install express

Question

I'm learning web development by going through a course and it was time to install express using node package manager. I had to install express and used the following command:

npm install express

and I got an error that said:

npm ERR! code EAI_AGAIN

npm ERR! errno EAI_AGAIN

npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/express failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-07-21T08_32_35_6
54Z-debug.log

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I'm totally lost at the moment. Please don't judge me as I'm still extremely new to Node. Help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue and I just solved it with command sets that I found on the internet. I am sharing it to save your time.

npm config rm proxy 
npm config rm https-proxy --tried removing npm proxy 

I am sorry I can't add more detail to it, but this solved my issue of:

npm ERR! code EAI_AGAIN
npm ERR! errno EAI_AGAIN
npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/express failed, reason: getaddrinfo 
EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org