download-npm

Download the modules from the NPM registry to HTML5 file system API

Installation

npm install download-npm

Features

• Library to download packages
• Supports scoped packages

Out of the scope

• It can not use the registry defined in your .npmrc file

Usage

downloadNpm takes an package name and a path as arguments and returns a promise, a promise that resolves once the package has been downloaded to the folder set in path.

import downloadNpm from 'download-npm'
 
downloadNpm(
  'modulname@version', // for example, express@4.0.0-rc4 or tape@latest etc
  '/tmp' // the path to download
).then()