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This utility is used to set the credentials in .npmrc locally to authenticate against any public/private NPM Repository.
NPM_REGISTRY_API_KEY => the value of _auth.NPM_REGISTRY_EMAIL => the email used to authenticate with. The default value will be used if this environment variable is not set.NPM_REGISTRY => the registry that the utility will authenticate against. npm install npm-auth
# This is the first task that needs to run prior to "npm install"
npm-auth
If you are not setting the properties as environment variables, you are welcome to passing them via the CLI
#arguments:
# registry (required): the registry repository, eg: npmjs.org
# email (required): your email address associated to this repositroy, format: you@email.com
# secure-token (required): your api key which is used to authenticate
# file-path (optional): specify the location to output the configuration file
# print prints the local configuration file
# Example usage
npm-auth --registry=http://www.your-private-registry/npm --secure-token=aasd-123-zasdf-123-sfd --email=you@email.com
# Note you may pass in just one of the three required parameters if the other parameters are set as Environment variables
npm-auth --email=you@email.com
# Also note that anythning passed via the CLI will OVERRIDE the Environment variables, which allows you to flexibibly configure within your CI environment.
.npmrc from the project solution.gitignore
# Other ignore files above
.npmrc
####Development
Start with:
npm install
Running tests:
npm run test
# Run test with coverage. The coverage report by default is configured for lcov and can be located in the `./coverage` directory.
npm run test:cover
Command:
npm run push
Building the application:
The resulting source code is built to a ./dist directory which is where the transpiled source resides. By default the test files are not built to this directory, only the underlying source.
Command:
npm run build
####Contributing
Looking to contribute to NPM-Auth? I love seeing PR's and suggestions, please visit the CONTRIBUTING section for more information.
FAQs
Utility that sets the npmrc credentials based on environment variables
The npm package npm-auth receives a total of 40 weekly downloads. As such, npm-auth popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that npm-auth demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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