Download a module from the npm registry.

npm [-g] install download-npm-package

• Library to download packages
• CLI to download packages
• Will use registry (and auth) defined in your .npmrc file
• Supports scoped packages

downloadNpmPackage takes an package arg & a path as arguments and returns a promise, a promise that resolves once the package has been downloaded to the folder set in path.

import downloadNpmPackage from 'download-npm-package';

downloadNpmPackage({
  arg: 'modulname@version' // for example, npm@2 or @mic/version@latest etc
  path: '/tmp' // package will be downlodaded to ${path}/packageName
}).then()

There's also a cli available!

download-npm-package $packageArg [$path]