Show HN: Scaling NPM in VMs with Npmserve

Wow! I think it's worth emphasizing that in the given example, the time taken to install all dependencies went from 8m10s to 7.5s. Seems like a huge productivity boon for any teams working with Node.

Wouldn't it be easier to commit node_modules to the source control server? Then you don't have to do npm install on build servers.

The root issue is clearly NPM&#x27;s terrible performance, but it seems to have been exacerbated here by VirtualBox&#x27;s terrible networking.<p>Given that you&#x27;re talking about developer environments, wouldn&#x27;t it have been simpler to just try a different virtualisation tool like Parallels, VMWare or (if you&#x27;re on Windows) Hyper-V ?