Install Node modules from GitHub using npm under the hood.

nfg (node from git) is a wrapper around the npm package manager to install node packages from GitHub.com

Install with npm by executing the following command inside a terminal:

$ npm i -g nfg

Afterwards installation is completed can use nfg to install node modules from GitHub.com by specifiying the source as username/repo, for example

$ nfg -g kevingimbel/leetscript-cli
$ nfg lynzt/fs_readfile

The last argument is always the repository. All options like -g are passed to npm directly.

I'm a lazy person and I don't like to type npm install ssh+git://[email protected]/user/repo when installing from private repositories. 😬