Same like bower, it might happen that you need to build things not only locally but also in some sort of CI. Deploying a npm proxy cache is fairly easy. Installation I suggest to add a specific user for this: useradd -m -d /var/cache/npm -s /bin/false npm Some neccessary packages: apt-get install nodejs You probably want to fetch the latest packages. Now we install the cache: sudo -u npm /bin/bash cd npm install npm-proxy-cache Startup /etc/systemd/system/npm-proxy-cache.service [Unit] Description=npm proxy cache After=network.target After=syslog.target [Service] RuntimeDirectory=npm-proxy-cache PIDFile=/var/run/npm-proxy-cache/npm-proxy-cache.pid WorkingDirectory=/var/cache/npm ExecStart=/var/cache/npm/node_modules/npm-proxy-cache/bin/npm-proxy-cache -e -h %H Restart=always RestartSec=10 StandardOutput=syslog StandardError=syslog SyslogIdentifier=npm-proxy-cache User=npm Group=npm [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Client usage npm config set proxy http://npm-proxy-cache.example.com:8080 npm config set https-proxy http://npm-proxy-cache.example.com:8080 npm config set strict-ssl false

If you’re using bower for some of your projects and may happen to build this not only locally but also in some sort of CI, you might want to have a bower caching proxy in your network. Installation I suggest to add a specific user for this: useradd -m -d /var/cache/bower -s /bin/false bower Some neccessary packages: apt-get install git python-virtualenv Now we install the cache according to the README. sudo -u bower-cache /bin/bash cd virtualenv . . bin/activate pip install -U pip setuptools pip install bower-cache Configuration sudo -u bower-cache /bin/bash cd bower-cache-init /var/cache/bower/cache cd cache python manage.py changepassword admin We also need to adjust some variables which gets served to the clients. Read more