Prefer local npm cache when deploying?

[brianloveswords]

See: https://addyosmani.com/blog/using-npm-offline/

[tkellen]

This is more complexity than I personally want to add to our boilerplate. I'd be curious to see what it looks like if you want to whip up a PR though!

[cowboy]

If you could point npm to a local directory instead of needing a separate server process, I'd be SO down.

FWIW, I experimented with this bash script, and while I saw local-npm serving modules, it didn't seem to be any faster. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

local-npm --directory /tmp/local-npm &
pid=$!
npm set progress false
npm set registry http://127.0.0.1:5080
npm install
npm set registry https://registry.npmjs.org
kill $pid