Running Verdaccio a Self Hosted Private NPM with Docker

Verdaccio is a lightweight private npm registry that can be run locally.

Clone the repo

I created a repo with the docker-compose file for running the application in the docker container.

Repo: https://github.com/Docker-X/verdaccio-docker-compose

Run the application:

Open a terminal, navigate to the directory containing the docker-compose.yml file, and run the following command:

cd verdaccio-docker-compose/ docker-compose up -d

Verdaccio will be accessible at http://localhost:4873

How to use the npm package manager

Get into the container

docker exec -it verdaccio sh

To publish your first package just:

1. Create user

$ docker exec -it verdaccio sh # This command will take you into the container

$ npm adduser --registry http://localhost:4873/
npm notice Log in on http://localhost:4873/ Username: balu Email: (this IS public) jinna.baalu@gmail.com

Logged in on http://localhost:4873/.

1. Go to the project to publish

mkdir nodejs-app cd my-nodejs-app echo "console.log('Hello, World!');" > app.js npm init -y node app.js

npm login --registry http://localhost:4873/npm publish --registry http://localhost:4873/

Go To http://localhost:4873 and refresh you will see your package available

Stop the application:

To stop the running containers, use the following command:

docker-compose down