How can I use nodemon without using npm install

Question

My network doesn't allowed using npm install . How can I install and use nodemon? Node run only after set PATH variables on windows I tried set the path for nodemon, but I dont have results.

Answer 1

The easiest way to install an npm package is going to be to either tunnel out of your network with a proxy, or to simply install the package while you're on a different network. The reason it's not as simple to just download it is that npm packages have a list of dependencies that need to be installed along with it. Npm takes care of installing the dependency graph for you. If you try to install it manually you would have to manually go over nodemon's package.json file and install all of its dependencies. That might not be so bad until you realize that you then have to go through all those dependencies and install their dependencies, and so on...

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If tunneling out of your network or installing the module on a different network isn't an option, I'm happy to install it myself and upload a zip of the completed install to Google Drive so you can just extract it to the global npm folder. However, that would obviously not be a permanent solution for you and even though I have good intentions, you don't know me and I don't recommend downloading random stuff off of a stranger's Google Drive.

I recommend getting a friend to do the following from another network:

1. Install nodemon: npm install -g nodemon
2. Find where global npm modules install to: npm config get prefix
3. Navigate to the global npm module path, find the nodemon directory, and zip it up.
4. Email/Dropbox you the archived module.
5. On your machine figure out where global npm modules install to: npm config get prefix
6. Extract the nodemon zip to that location.