How to publish my npm package in GitLab NPM Registry? - npm

Question

I hooked up a trial gold plan to test GitLab NPM Registry functionality.
Created a gitlab prohect with the name "bar".
Created a file to generate a token: in the file with the name auth.txt I wrote the line:
grant_type=password&username=my-gitlab-username& password=my-gitlab-password
Generated a token using the command:
curl -d "# auth.txt" -X POST http:/gitlab.com/oauth/token
In the .npmrc file, the path was indicated
gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/my-gitlab-project-id/packages/npm/:_ authToken=my-genereated-token
Created an app.js file for testing, with the contents: console.log('test')
Created a json package with content
{
"name": "#foo/bar",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "app.js",
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.16.4"
},
"devDependencies": {},
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"start": "node app.js"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"publishConfig": {
"registry":"http://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/my-gitlab-project-id/packages/npm/"
}
}
6.In the folder now there are 3 files:
.npmrc
app.js
package.json
I start publishing the package to the repository with the command
npm --verbose publish
It is not published! writes:
npm verb cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', '--verbose', 'publish' ]
npm info using npm#6.14.2
npm info using node#v13.11.0
npm verb npm-session febf284b8dfbe40b
npm verb publish [ '.' ]
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~prepublish: #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~prepare: #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~prepublishOnly: #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~prepack: #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~postpack: #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm notice
npm notice 📦 #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm notice === Tarball Contents ===
npm notice 687B logs
npm notice 175B app.js
npm notice 404B package.json
npm notice 582B README.md
npm notice 55B auth.loc.txt
npm notice 59B auth.txt
npm notice === Tarball Details ===
npm notice name: #foo/bar
npm notice version: 1.0.0
npm notice package size: 1.1 kB
npm notice unpacked size: 2.0 kB
npm notice shasum: c4220955014b80c6948ff2a20124ac8d145d0675
npm notice integrity: sha512-pOQJVaXuneH80[...]DdtCjSLD1vkDQ==
npm notice total files: 6
npm notice
npm http fetch PUT 301 http://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/my-gitlab-project-id/packages/npm/#foo%2fbar 283ms
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~publish: #foo/bar#1.0.0
npm info lifecycle #foo/bar#1.0.0~postpublish: #foo/bar#1.0.0
#foo/bar#1.0.0
npm verb exit [ 0, true ]
npm timing npm Completed in 555ms
npm info ok
But in the GitLab in the list on the left - in Packages > List not a single package is displayed, either in the All section or in the NPM section.
Please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

You can try to specify the package registry for the exact project.
.npmrc file example:
# Set URL for your scoped packages.
#foo:registry=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<Source Project ID>/packages/npm/
# Add the token for the scoped packages URL. This will allow you to download
//gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<Source Project ID>/packages/npm/:_authToken=${CI_JOB_TOKEN}
# with the project you want your package to be uploaded to.
//gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<Destination Project ID>/packages/npm/:_authToken=${CI_JOB_TOKEN}