node-gyp rebuild slow

[wbern]

When I install this package, the node-gyp rebuild process is pretty slow.

Is there a way to avoid this step?

Thanks in advance.

[landtechjoe]

This would be really useful. We'd like to be able to skip this install step in our CI environment. Some packages allow setting an environment like Cypress' CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=0 that will prevent the download and install of the cypress binary. If there was something similar available for this so that we don't have to build it across every parallel step in our CI pipeline it would speed things up quite a bit