xnpm - a "X" version of npm

Require node 16 or higher LTS.

Installation

$ npm install -g xnpm

Usage

xnpm <command>

Optimized commands

• xnpm install
• xnpm run <script>

Buy a newer CPU may better than these efforts~

Contribute

What does it affects npm performance?

Appearance	Maybe	Optimize Priority
-	require splited modules, mainly on Windows filesystem	✓✓✓✓✓
pre-install scripts are silent	-	✓✓✓
run-script slowly start up	??	✓✓
lag on idealTree	??	✓
lag on reify	??	✓

Recommend Configurations

  configureOptimizedRC() {
    /**
     * Audit will send report to registry, it waste time
     * when install packages.
     */
    this.config.set('audit', false);
    /**
     * Know what happens is very important, there are some packages
     * run pre-install scripts when being installed.
     * 
     * If it lags, we can see what going on in console, not just
     * wait it finished.
     */
    this.config.set('foreground-scripts', true);
    /**
     * Default 5 minutes is too long, 10s is enough.
     */
    this.config.set('fetch-timeout', 10000);
    /**
     * The peerDependencies are unnecessary installed, users should
     * be responsible for it.
     */
    this.config.set('omit', 'peer');
    /**
     * Remind users of using proxy, sometimes they maybe forgot had
     * set a proxy and the install process frozen, without any
     * infomation.
     */
    const proxy = this.config.get('proxy');
    if (proxy) {
      log.warn('Using a proxy ==>', proxy);
    }
  }

Useful links

• pacote Fetches package manifests and tarballs from the npm registry.
• cacache npm's local cache
• How npm Works