Postinstall freeze on OSX Yosemite - 10.10.3

[XPilot]

When trying to install nw, the download is is ok but when it is running the post install, the process freezes and nothing happens. Error is below:

nw@0.12.2 postinstall /Users/radu.paraschiv/_playground/presentation/NW-Presentation/node_modules/nw
node scripts/install.js

[shama]

Hmm could you try npm cache clean and npm i nw again?

Also which version of npm -v? Thanks!

[XPilot]

I tried your suggestion, still get the same result.

npm version: 2.5.1
node version: 0.12.7

[saitonakamura]

Same story here on Windows
npm cache clean didn't help either
Little research shows that the script freezes on var createBar = require('multimeter')(process);
Decomposing it into var multimeter = require('multimeter'); var createBar = multimeter(process); result into successful execute of first line and freeze on second

Node version: 4.4.1
Npm version: 3.8.3

[conceptualspace]

it takes it sweet time but eventually does finish (looks like this is just the decompress step and the progress bar is not updated)

tested against nw 0.14.4; osx 10.11.5; npm 3.8.3

[Mithgol]

I believe it happens when the site dl.nwjs.io becomes overloaded, especially immediately after every new NW.js release. Once in 2015 it took almost thirty minutes to download and install a new version.

[Mithgol]

We could eventually eliminate that central point of failure by switching to some P2P-distributed file system such as IPFS, especially after an implementation of IPFS in JavaScript is finished in the future.

[rohan-deshpande]

Hi,I have a CLI which uses this package and hmm yeah, it's REALLY slow, I've currently been waiting around 20mins and the postinstall is still going.

This wasn't happening a while back when I was building my tool, but it's really frustrating now, any way to improve this?

I'm using npm v5.0.2 now and am on Sierra v10.12, not sure this has anything to do with the issue though...

[Mithgol]

The issue seems to be mostly server-side and indicates that dl.nwjs.io is a bit overloaded.

When a version of NW.js is downloaded repeatedly, local caches (such as https://www.npmjs.com/package/install-nw for example) might become helpful, but in other cases only a P2P system might help.