An npm Group Combining the npm Registry and Two Private Registries The configuration for such a setup is displayed in Figure 16.3, “An npm Group Combining the npm Registry and Two Private Registries”.įigure 16.3. This is possible for npm repositories by creating a new Repository Group with the Provider set to npm as documented in Managing Repository Groups.Ī typical, useful example would be to group the proxy repository that: proxies the npm registry, a npm, hosted repository with internal software packages and another npm, hosted repository with third-party packages. A repository group allows you to expose the aggregated content of multiple repositories with one URL to npm and other tools. Grouping npm RegistriesĪ repository group is the recommended way to expose all your npm registries repositories to your users, without needing any further client side configuration. The scheduled tasks to recreate the npm metadata database based on the components in a hosted repository and to back up the database are documented in Managing Scheduled Tasks. You can share internally developed, proprietary packages within your organization via these private registries allowing you to collaborate efficiently across development teams with a central package exchange and storage location.īrowsing the registry storage or searching for packages is not supported. In addition, Nexus Repository Manager Pro and Nexus Repository Manager OSS support running your own private registry - also known as a hosted repository using the npm format. This allows you to take advantage of the packages in the npm registry and other public registries without incurring repeated downloads of packages, since they will be proxied.

Nexus Repository Manager Pro and Nexus Repository Manager OSS support the npm registry format for proxy repositories. Many other packages for a variety of use cases.

It contains a large number of open source packages for Node.js based server-side application development, build tools like bower or grunt and It is the default package registry, from which components can be retrieved. The npmjs website, available at, provides search and other convenience features to access the public registry at. It is used to create and use node packaged modules and is built into the popular Javascript platform Node.js, which is mostly used for server-side application development.

The command line tool npm is a package management solution for Javascript-based development. Available in Nexus Repository OSS and Nexus Repository Pro Introduction

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