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The funky progress bar is about the coolest thing with npm. They could let it take a minute if they wanted too and i would keep watching it with amazement.

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you mean the progress bar that takes up way too much screen real estate to the extent that it completely cuts off any useful information from the install process?

Yes, that one. I agree with you, by the way. I don't have a terminal in front of me, but the progress bar seems to leave something like 10 characters of less of rapidly-changing status updates in exchange for the vast majority of horizontal real estate. I bet if they had split the bar onto a separate line from the status, it would run faster

npm 2.x user here. Does anybody want to share a video of the 3.x progress bar? (Easy with QuickTime or CloudApp, btw)

Seems like a perfect task for asciinema

https://asciinema.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elWIVKWhWTk

This seems to make it go faster:

http://bennyhillthis.com/?v=elWIVKWhWTk

I see that with iTerm 2, but using Terminal gives me a very different experience.

Here's a side-by-side: https://youtu.be/odoVfHHBYVM

Until recently, I had no clue iTerm was doing something weird. I just figured npm install was just ugly and incomprehensible.

heh

My iTerm2 has the same behavior as your Terminal.app, so you might just have to change some settings in iTerm.

https://asciinema.org/a/9gt0i1kxbto41gj4796tjkdnt

Holy crap that was fast.

What's the color scheme you're using for terminal? I'm also rocking agnoster.

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