So I'll start off by saying that I am on OSX Yosemite preview right now and that could be the cause of my issue. Kind of doubt it but maybe...
I've noticed some odd things when I try to install a packages with npm. Normally, the list of all the packages git location and http status would be printed out, but I'm not getting that.
Whats happening is that I'm getting a \ that rotates while it tries to retrieve the package and it's dependencies. So while npm is working and I can install things, this odd display error is making me think something somewhere is broken on my laptop.
I am using NVM
I also have bash-it install for my bash profile.
To visually see whats going on, I made a screencast of an npm install process.
Any ideas or tips are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Edit:
Ran npm sudo npm cache clean and the issue is still there
So some more research shows that this is a config option with npm, not an issue.
To resolve this, you need to change your npm config options
$ npm config set spin false
$ npm config set loglevel http