I am trying to run npm install and since my connection is behind proxy, I need to set few proxy configurations for npm to read. It seems it has be be placed in .npmrc file.
I don't have this file under C:/users/username/ folder. How do I create this file manually in windows?
Simply run
npm config edit
from anywhere in the command prompt or git bash or PowerShell, it will automatically create a global .npmrc file in your C:/users/{userName}/ and launch it using a text editor.
NOTE:
npm config list
WILL NOT CREATE IT
you can see the defaults, run :
npm config ls -l
Global NPM config
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc
Per-user NPM config
C:\Users\%username%\.npmrc
Built-in NPM config
C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\npmrc
Run "npm config edit" it will create new .npmrc file in case the file was not created automatically after node.js installtion