How to remove/ reset npm proxy
It was a connection problem.
I remember that I played with proxy configuration by mistake like this :
npm config set proxy http://localhost:8080/
npm config set https-proxy http://localhost:8080/
npm config set strict-ssl false
which made npm client attempts to hit localhost:8080 to pull the module rather than the correct internet endpoint.
so after couple of days of frustration i visited this link
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/config
then run
npm config edit
which opened a file inside that file i removed those three lines i added above , then everything worked fine.
Note: you might need to reboot as mentioned in 王子1986's comment.