[joshschreuder]

Fair enough, I'm not up with npm's development on a PR level, so I was just going by this line in the changelog:

"This has been patched to eliminate that churn, and our testing shows the progress bar as being eliminated as a source of slow down."

Apologies for being misleading.

[STRML]

Just to update you - looks like this has finally been released:

https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.8.3

[joshschreuder]

Great, thanks! I'll check it out.

Unfortunately I've not had much luck getting pnpm or ied running on Windows due to the symlinking stuff (though the installation portion is super quick), so hopefully the speed improvements here can help lessen the blow a bit.

[joshschreuder]

As an aside, why does npm check-in the node_modules folder into their repo?

I was under the impression this was generally considered bad practice, so it seemed weird seeing it done by the package manager itself :)