Setting up Verdaccio

There are a couple of commercial registry options out there. Arguably, the most popular option is to get a pro plan for the official npm registry. This way, you’ll be able to publish and manage private packages. Whatever option you pick, you will always have to use a cloud version for publishing your packages.

Especially for playing around with the publishing process, having a registry locally would be great. A great option is to leverage Verdaccio for this. Verdaccio can be either run by cloning the Verdaccio code repository, running the Docker container provided by Verdaccio, or using npx.

Let’s go for the npx approach:

$ npx verdaccio

 warn --- config file  - ~/.config/verdaccio/config.yaml

 info --- plugin successfully loaded: verdaccio-htpasswd

 info --- plugin successfully loaded: verdaccio-audit

 warn --- http address - http://localhost:4873/ - verdaccio/5.14.0

Now that Verdaccio is running, you can go to the URL shown...