- #Npm config set private registry how to#
- #Npm config set private registry install#
- #Npm config set private registry code#
We achieve this using preinstall and postinstall hooks.įirstly, grab the scripts from this gist. Instead, we are going to setup a temporary SSH configuration before npm installs the module, and tear it down afterwards. Unfortunately, there isn’t an explicit hook into npm to achieve this. To access the private module, you need to let npm know that you’ve got a private key, and that it should use this private key for SSH connections to your host.
#Npm config set private registry how to#
Check out this guide for details on how to add a deploy key. Bitbucketĭeploy keys in Bitbucket provide read-only access to the repo. If you have a organization account, and want to limit your deploy key to read-only access, setup a GitHub Machine User and add it as a collaborator to your repo. They are easier to setup than machine users. If you have a personal account, or you aren’t fussed about your deploy key having read/write privileges, use a GitHub Deploy Key. The next step is to upload the public key. You’ll use the private key on your deploy server, and upload your public key to GitHub/Bitbucket - thus providing deploy-time access to your private module. You should now have a private/public keypair. When prompted with a location to save the generated keys, don’t overwrite your existing SSH key!! Save your key to somewhere else, e.g.Setup a deploy keyĬreate a new SSH key: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C Replace the email address with something real. To access it, we’ll need to setup a deploy key. Since this repo is private, when we try to run npm install, we’ll be greeted with an error. Setup your package.json file to resemble the following:
#Npm config set private registry code#
Let’s assume you have a project which needs to access code from a private module, private-parts, which is hosted on Bitbucket under the user bigbluebananas. Modules are marked as dependencies with npm in package.json, under dependencies. If you use a personal plan, you’ll be stuck with a deploy key with read/write permissions, which is less than ideal - a deployment should only ever need read-only access to the private module. This is so that you can create a machine user and add it to the repo as a read-only collaborator. Note: If you pick GitHub, try to ensure you sign up as an organization. If you don’t know which one to pick, start with Bitbucket - it’s free. You can choose either service to host your module - both work just fine with this technique. Many people prefer GitHub to Bitbucket, but the latter is still an excellent choice, and is seriously worth considering. GitHub requires you to pay for any private repos, whereas Bitbucket allows you to host private repos for free. The major difference between the two is their pricing structure. They both do the same job - host your source code via git, and offer pull requests, issue trackers and wikis. There are two major choices here: GitHub and Bitbucket. The code for an example project based on the below can be found on GitHub. Encode the private key and set as an environment variable during deployment.Add a preinstall and postinstall script to your project’s package.json, to setup and teardown SSH configuration, in order to access the private module during npm install.Setup a deploy keypair to access your private module via SSH, and upload the public key to GitHub/Bitbucket.Define a dependency on this module in your project’s package.json, pointing to the private module with an SSH url.Host your module’s source code on GitHub/Bitbucket, in a private repo.In this article, I’m going to show you how you can replicate npm private hosting using GitHub or Bitbucket, and access these modules from your deployment server and/or Heroku. In many cases, however, you can get away without using npm for hosting your private modules. In some situations, using a private npm registry is the correct choice, such as if you need strict semver adherence, or need to separate your source code hosting from your production module hosting. If you are already using GitHub to host your private module’s source code, you might however be wondering whether paying for another service is worth it. I think this is a good move from npm, and with a price of only $7/user/month, it doesn’t break the bank.
#Npm config set private registry install#
This allows you to publish a node module to your own private registry, and install it via npm install as normal. Npm has recently unleashed private modules to world. I will look to publish a revised post soon. Much has changed since then, so the below may no longer be relevant. Note: this article was written in May 2015.