sinopia-freeze-storage

Makes your sinopia/verdaccio registry actually work when going offline. This tool updates sinopia's package.json storage files to describe only locally available packages.

You might like verdaccio-offline-storage, which is a Verdaccio plugin that does what this tool does but without modifying the storage content (everything is done on the fly on demand).

Usage

Install the module:

npm install --global sinopia-freeze-storage

then use the cli:

freeze-storage /path/to/sinopia/storage/directory

Why?

tl;dr:

If my registry worked when online, then it must work later when offline for the same dependencies requirements.

Long version (basically me complaining about not having internet access everywhere):

I run a sinopia-like repository at work with internet connection. There I npm install all my required dependencies, meaning
all required modules gets stored in the sinopia storage. More than that, this means sinopia will download the exact module versions I need for the project I'm working on. The problem starts when going offline some time later and try to npm install from scratch (e.g no yarn.lock file): sinopia says it can't find the package I'm requesting, and this mostly happens because a newer version of some module has been released, and it's latest version isn't the one I locally have. Ok fine, I know my package.json is asking for some-package@^4.1.0 and there is [email protected] available, so the newer should be installed instead, but damn I just want the one I currently have at least! Also, I don't want to force my package dependencies to match an exact version, and I can't force that for my dependencies dependencies anyway.

Using as a module

const freeze = require('sinopia-freeze-storage');
freeze('/path/to/storage/dir');