Error when running npm install about truffle-starter-kit

[PatrickAlphaC]

Thanks for making this issue. Could you try:

1. Installing yarn and then running yarn instead of npm install? https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#mac-stable
2. Could you run the following

mkdir new-project
cd new-project
truffle unbox smartcontractkit/box
yarn

[mcollarte]

Thanks Patrick for the quick response!

That seemed to work (though I got a lot of warnings and some errors in the process) however now I do see the node_modules folder in my project.
Also, I was getting a timeout error fetching packages which I was able to resolve with the following command:
yarn install --network-timeout 1000000000

Any idea why the npm install failed? Would you recommend yarn going forward?

Thanks!

[PatrickAlphaC]

Awesome! Glad it worked!

I'm not sure... I've found yarn to be much more reliable on average over npm.

[PatrickAlphaC]

Closing as this is all set.