post install script fails when behind proxy because node-fetch does not support standard proxy environment variables (like HTTP_PROXY)

[itai-huawei]

in case of running against an organizational proxy, it is not possible to install the project due to the use of node-fetch that does not support this.

vacuum/npm-install/postinstall.js

Line 3 in 7e02093

import fetch from "node-fetch";

[daveshanley]

Don't give up so easily :)

There are other, simpler ways to install vacuum if you can't use node.

https://quobix.com/vacuum/installing/

[daveshanley]

We can't fix the node-fetch issue, so please, try another way to install vacuum, the easiest.. is via CURL.

curl -fsSL https://quobix.com/scripts/install_vacuum.sh | sh

[itai-huawei]

but i want to install it as part of my node.js project. what is your suggestion?

[itai-huawei]

would you mind if i contribute a change to the code to use some other library instead of node-fetch? so that this can be native to javascript?

[daveshanley]

Of course! What library do you intend to swap it out for?

This is why vacuum is opensource! So we can all make it better together.

[itai-gendler]

i think that most simple way will be to use axios for this. it is well adopted and works well with such configuration.
if you are ok with this, i can create a pull request for this

[itai-gendler]

FYI your work is nothing less than amazing :)

[daveshanley]

FYI your work is nothing less than amazing :)

Thank you, so very much! I really appreciate that.