npm view in stubbed-out npm-world hangs

Not sure if this is a problem with my setup or if it’s a problem with how-to-npm, but when I do npm view my-package-name as instructed by the verification message in challenge 07 (Publish), it just hangs. Outside the directory I created for the how-to-npm workshopper, npm view whatever works just fine, returning data about packages that exist or an 404 error for packages that don’t exist.

[sawant]

Here’s a solution that worked for me:

1. Run how-to-npm, and go back to the Login task (even if it’s completed)
2. Do the login task again
3. Once done, verify
4. Run how-to-npm, and go to the Publish task
5. Carry it out and verify

That worked for me.

[sawant]

The problem is that for some reason, the local registry stops working, so to trigger it to start working again, one has to go back to the Login step.