npm install hangs when installing Request Network SDK packages

[MantisClone]

Problem

npm install hangs indefinitely when installing Request Network SDK packages (e.g., @requestnetwork/request-client.js). This prevents users from installing our SDK with npm, forcing them to use pnpm as a workaround.

Proposed Solution

Investigate the root cause and ensure our published packages are installable with npm, yarn, and pnpm.

Considerations

• The monorepo uses Yarn 1.22.22 for development, but published packages should work with any package manager
• Our packages require Node.js >= 22.0.0
• pnpm works fine, so the issue may be npm-specific behavior with our dependency tree or package metadata
• May be related to recent npm policy changes

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Reports

• Rodrigo Pavezi (Dec 15, 2024) - had to switch to pnpm to continue work on payments-subgraph
• Aimen Sahnoun (Dec 19, 2024) - same issue when installing newly released packages into the API

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new project
2. Run npm install @requestnetwork/request-client.js
3. Observe that npm hangs and does not complete

Workaround

Use pnpm instead:

pnpm add @requestnetwork/request-client.js

Investigation Tasks

• Reproduce the issue locally with different npm versions
• Run npm install --verbose to identify where the hang occurs
• Check if specific packages or dependency combinations trigger the hang
• Investigate npm registry logs for any errors
• Check package metadata and tarball downloads
• Review recent package releases for any changes that might cause this

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🔗 Similar Issues

Related Issues

• Fix linking local RN SDK packages into the web-components repo public-issues#51
• SDK - Migrate to OIDC Trusted Publisher for NPM publishing #1648

🔗 Related PRs

RequestNetwork/request-api#375 - chore: remove package-lock.json and update package.json dependencies for requestnetwork packages [closed]
RequestNetwork/request-api#376 - chore: update .npmrc to set minimum release age for packages [closed]

👤 Suggested Assignees

• MantisClone
• aimensahnoun

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