npm install private github repositories by dependency in package.json

Question

Try this:

"dependencies" : {
  "name1" : "git://github.com/user/project.git#commit-ish",
  "name2" : "git://github.com/user/project.git#commit-ish"
}

You could also try this, where visionmedia/express is name/repo:

"dependencies" : {
   "express" : "visionmedia/express"
}

Or (if the npm package module exists):

"dependencies" : {
  "name": "*"
}

Taken from NPM docs

The following worked just fine in all scenarios i needed :

"dependencies": {
"GitRepo": "git+https://<token-from-github>:[email protected]/<user>/<GitRepo>.git"
}

For those of you who came here for public directories, from the npm docs: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#git-urls-as-dependencies

Git URLs as Dependencies

Git urls can be of the form:

git://github.com/user/project.git#commit-ish
git+ssh://user@hostname:project.git#commit-ish
git+ssh://user@hostname/project.git#commit-ish
git+http://user@hostname/project/blah.git#commit-ish
git+https://user@hostname/project/blah.git#commit-ish

The commit-ish can be any tag, sha, or branch which can be supplied as an argument to git checkout. The default is master.

The accepted answer works, but I don't like much the idea to paste secure tokens into the package.json

I have found it elsewhere, just run this one-time command as documented in the git-config manpage.

git config --global url."https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/".insteadOf [email protected]:

GITHUB_TOKEN may be setup as environmnet variable or pasted directly

and then I install private github repos like: npm install user/repo --save

---

works also in Heroku, just setup the above git config ... command as heroku-prebuild script in package.json and setup GITHUB_TOKEN as Heroku config variable.

There are multiple ways to do it as people point out, but the shortest versions are:

// from master
"depName": "user/repo",

// specific branch
"depName": "user/repo#branch",

// specific commit
"depName": "user/repo#commit",

// private repo
"depName": "git+https://[TOKEN]:[email protected]/user/repo.git"

e.g.

"dependencies" : {
  "hexo-renderer-marked": "amejiarosario/dsa.jsd#book",
  "hexo-renderer-marked": "amejiarosario/dsa.js#8ea61ce",
  "hexo-renderer-marked": "amejiarosario/dsa.js",
}