NPM: how to specify registry to publish in the command line?

Question

I'm testing a new version of our npm packages registry. I'd like to run a job in our CI server specifying a registry different of the default.

I tried to execute npm publish --registry "http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs-registry but it didn't work. It was published to the default registry.

How do I specify a different registry while running npm publish. It is a scoped package.

Answer 1

There's multiple ways to accomplish this.

1. use npm config to set the registry globally:

   npm config set registry http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs
   

2. use npm config to set the registry for the package scope:

   npm config set @<your scope here>:registry http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs
   

3. configure your package.json with a publish config:

   {
     ...
     "publishConfig": {
       "registry": "http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs"
     },
     ...
   }
   
   

4. use npmrc to configure the registry

   registry=http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs