npmd

distributed npm client.

synposis

An alternative npm client, based around a local replication of the npm metadata. (package.json & readmes are replicated for every package, but only tarballs that you have installed are replicated)

replicating data locally makes the client much smarter, and enables all manner of Mad Science.

sync

To begin, replicate the registry metadata. When this gets near 100% you can use the other commands.

npm install npmd -g
npmd --sync

You should leave the npmd service running in the background, this will make running other npmd commands much faster.

npmd will pull down npm metadata, and store it in a leveldb. this will be less than 200mb, including a full text index.

install

install a module. if the module's dependencies are in the cache, then npmd will install without making a single network round trip!

npmd install browserify --greedy

--greedy is optional, if enabled, the dependency tree is flattened as much as possible. so you have less duplication.

publish

publish a module locally. In a package directory, just do:

npmd publish

and your package version will be stashed into a queue for local use. You can npmd install yourpkg locally even if yourpkg isn't on the public npm yet. You can even have multiple versions of your package queued up locally.

To inspect your local package queue, do:

npmd queue

You can remove a package from your queue with:

npmd queue rm pkgname@version

To sync your local package queue with the public npm, you can run:

npmd queue sync

resolve

resolve all module versions required to install a given module. will write json to stdout in the same format as npm-shrinkwrap.

npmd resolve request

License

MIT