Add command that configure China mirror

[gucong3000]

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[nschonni]

@gucong3000 our install process usually relys on GitHub releases for the binary downloads. Is that also something that is blocked? I know it can fall back to local build if necessary, I'm just curious of the experience with the alternate NPM install.

[xzyfer]

It'd be better to general document settings a proxy using npm config or Env cars rather than suggesting a specific library and proxy server

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[gucong3000]

something that is blocked?

Yes, Great Firewall randomly dropp network packets from GitHub and Amazon S3 Service.

China, GitHub and the man-in-the-middle

it can fall back to local build if necessary

Most Web front-end development engineers do not have a compilation environment installed.

It'd be better to general document settings a proxy using npm config

All packages that require download binary package are all need to do that. This is going to be a very tedious and error-prone operation. mirror-config-china will bulk operation for these packages

[xzyfer]

This seems reasonable to me. Curious to hear @EdwonLim thoughts since he maintains node-sass-china.

[saper]

Can this be done without adding npx dependency? Something like

npm i -g mirror-config-china --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org

[gucong3000]

Yes.