Updated: Magically, today everything started working as expected … yeah!
npm -version
npm -version
5.6.0
During any npm operation I get:
npm i
npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! 404 401 Unauthorized: @angular/animations@5.2.11
Or…
npm install @ionic/storage
npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! 404 401 Unauthorized: @ionic/storage@latest
or
npm i -g ionic to update
npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! 404 401 Unauthorized: @ionic/cli-framework@1.5.0
Some other similar issues, but nothing as generic as this (and their resolutions do not work).
– Update
This problem is happening only my Windows workstation. I have a mac where it seems to be working correctly.
Also, I updated node to 10.14/npm 6.4.1 with the same results.
I can use npm for any other artifact, such as cordova … just not ionic or angular libraries.