feature: download progress

[ry]

doesn't need to be fancy - just some indication that it's doing something

[beatgammit]

I was just about to request the same thing. On slower connections, or with huge dependencies, NPM appears to hang.

[AvianFlu]

@beatgammit - npm config set loglevel info can help a little bit with that problem.

In general, +1, and I also want to link https://github.com/substack/node-charm in case anybody wants to get fancy. :)

[thejh]

👍
For this to be optimal, I'd suggest to rewrite the installation stuff to use the on-disk cache with additional dependency and size data to determine all dependencies at startup time. Then npm could display the exact download progress in terms of size and packages.

Unfortunately, I think that I can't do that myself because that part of the npm source is too cryptic for me to understand.

[Zearin]

+1!!! ☺

[isaacs]

The log facility should be replaced with a standalone thing to make this happen.

[faridnsh]

+1 to this, would be nice if we could have a progress bar, that for every top level module it fills one tile of it.

[Zearin]

+1

[timoxley]

npm's default verbose logging seems to achieve "some indication that it's doing something" for now. Can we close this?

#4430

[faridnsh]

You can close this, if you want to open new issue for progress bar :P

[rlidwka]

Yeah, it's still relevant, although I have no idea how to fix that. Maybe reserve the bottom line of the terminal for the progress bar?

[iarna]

npm has a spinner now, but I want to actually add real progress indicators

[asbjornenge]

Nyan unicorn progress bar ftw! im(h)o