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Using NPM to install dependency-heavy packages takes an excessively long time #27

Open jschuringa opened 6 years ago

jschuringa commented 6 years ago

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Description

When using PackageInstaller and grabbing packages from npm, any package with a lot of dependencies (such as webpack) will take a _very_long time to download, in excess of 30 minutes for webpack. Using npm in cmd and downloading the same package takes only 10 seconds.

Steps to recreate

  1. Install webpack through PackageInstaller
  2. Wait

Current behavior

The install takes an incredibly long time (over 5 minutes)

Expected behavior

The install should take less than 30 seconds.