Overcome the Wall

Living in China you just have to make a lot of effort to overcome the GFW(aka, Great Firewall).

Personally I strongly recommend Monocloud to accelerate network access in China. Running the client will start a proxy running on 7078 port based on TCP and UDP protocol. Meanwhile it also turns on proxy in internet settings:

The following walkthrough presumes that you have started monocloud.

Github

Sometimes cloning a repo from github will return a connection timeout or connection reset error. You know why.

To use git behind a proxy:

git config --global http.proxy http://127.0.0.1:7078

Although http.proxy indicates it is a http proxy, it seems to work for both http and https as cloning github repos are on 443 port.

Once the proxy is no longer needed:

git config --global unset http.proxy

npm

Thanks to Taobao, all salute Tabao! Here’s the command to switch original npm repository to Taobao’s mirror repository:

npm config set registry https://registry.npm.taobao.org

Test if successful:

npm info express

Note that registry.npmmirror.com is the new domain for registry.npm.taobao.org.

Restore original repository:

npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org

A Beijing coder contributed an npm registry management tool nrm:

npm install -g nrm
nrm ls
  npm ---------- https://registry.npmjs.org/
  yarn --------- https://registry.yarnpkg.com/
  tencent ------ https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/npm/
  cnpm --------- https://r.cnpmjs.org/
  taobao ------- https://registry.npmmirror.com/
  npmMirror ---- https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry/
nrm use taobao
   Registry has been set to: https://registry.npmmirror.com/

Easy and up-to-date.