mafintosh/ims

Install My Stuff - an opinionated npm module installer

ims

Install My Stuff - an opinionated npm module installer

npm install -g ims

IMS is a npm module installer that uses a p2p cache hosted on the Dat network to resolve all dependencies as fast as possible.

The cache is stored in a hypertrie which makes it fast to update and always get the latest version while minimising the amount of roundtrips, compared to npm install.

The module tarballs themself are still downloaded from the npm registry

Usage

# installs hypercore to ./node_modules
ims hypercore

For more options do ims --help

Usage: ims <package-name?> [options]

  --save, -s        saves the dep to package.json
  --save-dev, -S    saves the dev dep to package.json
  --global, -g      installs as a cli tool
  --production, -p  skip dev dependencies
  --update, -u      force update the cache
  --quiet, -q       do not print anything
  --seed            seed all metadata on the dat network

If <package-name> is omitted the deps from package.json is used

IMS stores its cache in ~/.ims.

Note that it uses sparse files for its database format so use ls -sh to list the actual size of the cache.

License

MIT

ims's Issues

number of reported installed modules is always different

As titled

amount of changes to TTY is causing terminal to spike

If calling ims with the cache hot, my terminal (iTerm2 via tmux) is spiking to 60-80% of CPU time because of the amount of changes that are being pushed through. Running it with -q almost halves the time.

Instructions on how to peer

I assume there is a way users can setup their machine to peer the modules they have installed. Is there a place to find instructions on this? Or could we add some to the readme?

module not found

$ ims
Connected to 1 peer(s) (Latest version: 6410719)
Downloaded 0 new module tarballs
Installed 2067 modules to ./node_modules
/Users/matteo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.12.0/lib/node_modules/ims/install.js:269
  if (err) throw err
           ^

Error: Module pino-pretty@^2.2.0 not found
    at /Users/matteo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.12.0/lib/node_modules/ims/index.js:181:30
    at loop (/Users/matteo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.12.0/lib/node_modules/ims/index.js:252:27)
    at nextDone (/Users/matteo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.12.0/lib/node_modules/ims/node_modules/nanoiterator/index.js:96:3)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:142:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)

[email protected] is on the registry.

How to seed as server

Not sure if I get how the project works, but how could I download all npm packages and start a daemon?

@-prefixed packages got saved in the wrong path

As an example @types/pino  get saved in node_modules/@types/pino/pino instead of node_modules/@types/pino.

option to seed the modules themselves

ims --seed

Perhaps something like that could serve up the modules themselves? Via IPFS or Dat?

Ability to install a version of a package

For example, ims [email protected]

./node_modules/.bin not populated

As titled, the ./node_modules/.bin is not automatically populated.