CB() never called! (taobao mirror issue)

[RCVarley]

The Problem

As reported in npm/cli#1737, when creating a new project and adding storybook to it with:

vue create project-name
cd project-name
vue add storybook

I got this error:

9686 http fetch GET 200 https://cdn.npm.taobao.org/polished/-/polished-3.6.5.tgz 335209ms
9687 silly extract polished@^3.4.4 extracted to C:\Users\[user]\code\project-name\node_modules\.staging\polished-d941e2b9 (335211ms)
9688 timing npm Completed in 389597ms
9689 error cb() never called!

This error was generated while attempting to use NPM. I also tried Yarn and it failed to fetch polished-3.6.5.tgz; I wonder if this was happening in the background...

The Solution

The issue was related to the taobao mirror of the NPM registry.

You can change the registry to use with vue create project-name -r https://registry.npmjs.org.

There is also a setting in .vuerc that you can change ("useTaobaoRegistry": false,).

Further Reading:

https://docs.npmjs.com/using-npm/registry.html
https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/creating-a-project.html#vue-create
https://medium.com/vuetify/productivity-in-vue-part-2-1dc209062cae

[pksunkara]

This is actually @vue/cli issue.