npm-delegate

A hierarchical npm-registry proxy to make private registries easier

npm registries all the way down.

wherefore?

Say you want to set up a local, private npm registry for certain modules, but you still want to be able to install public modules. Sure, thanks to couchdb, you could replicate the entire public registry down - but that's hundreds of gigabytes of extra disk space you'd need.

                          +--+
+------------+            |p |
| client     |   'foo'?   |r |          +------------+
|            |  --------> |o |  'foo'?  |            |
|            |            |x |  ------> | private    |
|            |            |y | <------  | registry   |
|            |            |  |    404   +------------+
|            |            |  |
|            |            |  |          'foo'?     +---------------+
|            |            |  |  -----------------> |               |
|            |            |  | <-----------------  |  public       |
|            | <--------  |  |         'foo'       |  registry     |
+------------+    'foo'   +--+                     +---------------+

Install

npm install -g npm-delegate

Usage

Run npm-delegate somewhere - possibly on the server where you're running couchdb for your registry.

npm-delegate registry1 registry2 registry3

eg

npm-delegate -p 1337 http://localhost:5984/registry https://registry.npmjs.org

setup your npm client:

npm do-some-stuff --registry http://your-delegate-host:1337

List as many registries as you want in fall-back order as command line arguments when starting npm-delegate.

note: proxy is read-only

Only GET requests are allowed. Strange things happens when you send state-changing requests around willy-nilly, and that's probably not what you want. For example, to publish a module, you probably want to specify which registry you're publishing it to, eg

$ npm publish --registry http://mysweetregistry.com

See also: how to specify a registry to publish to in your package.json

faqs

does this run a registry for me?

no

how do I set up my own private registry?

read this: https://github.com/isaacs/npmjs.org

What is it doing?

Turn on more logging with NODE_DEBUG environment variable:

 NODE_DEBUG="npm-delegate,request" npm-delegate http://registry.npmjs.org http://internal/registry

It complains about https certificates!

Turn off strict SSL checking:

 npm-delegate --no-strictssl https://registry.npmjs.org http://internal/registry

I'm behind a corporate proxy - help!

Calm down:

 npm-delegate --proxy http://corp:8080 http://registry.npmjs.org http://internal/registry

It will also pick up proxy settings from http_proxy environment variable if set.

contributors

• jden [email protected]
• Gareth Jones [email protected]

license

MIT (c) 2012 jden - Jason Denizac [email protected] http://jden.mit-license.org/2012