Not possible to install packages using - npm install

Not possible to install packages since https://npm.fontawesome.com requires password authorization.

1. git clone https://github.com/themesberg/volt-react-dashboard.git
2. cd volt-react-dashboard
3. npm install --> error

1979 verbose stack HttpErrorAuthUnknown: Unable to authenticate, need: Basic realm="https://npm.fontawesome.com/",service="npm.fontawesome.com"
1979 verbose stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch/check-response.js:84:17
1979 verbose stack     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
1980 verbose statusCode 401
1981 verbose pkgid @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons@https://npm.fontawesome.com/@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons/-/5.15.3/free-solid-svg-icons-5.15.3.tgz
1982 verbose cwd /Users/fbucek/Documents/learning/volt-react-dashboard
1983 verbose Darwin 20.6.0
1984 verbose argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/16.6.1/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
1985 verbose node v16.6.1
1986 verbose npm  v7.20.3
1987 error code E401
1988 error Incorrect or missing password.
1989 error If you were trying to login, change your password, create an
1989 error authentication token or enable two-factor authentication then
1989 error that means you likely typed your password in incorrectly.
1989 error Please try again, or recover your password at:
1989 error     https://www.npmjs.com/forgot
1989 error
1989 error If you were doing some other operation then your saved credentials are
1989 error probably out of date. To correct this please try logging in again with:
1989 error     npm login
1990 verbose exit 1

[zoltanszogyenyi]

@fbucek you’re using the latest version of Node, and not the LTS (which is recommended for everyone). If you don’t necessarily need to use the latest version of Node, I suggest you downgrade to the LTS (long term support) version.

Check out https://nodejs.org/en/ for their recommendation.

@cordosvictor we will keep developing Volt React based on the Node LTS version, is that right? If there will be breaking changes with a new LTS version, we will update the library dependencies as well.

[fbucek]

@zoltanszogyenyi thank you, downgrading node to the LTS version worked.

I had to downgrade to node@14

brew install node@14
brew unlink node
brew uninstall node
brew link node@14 --force

Then version match LTS version and npm install and then npm start works.

❯ node -v
v14.17.4