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Version Next (Development Branch)

Looking for Verdaccio version 5 or 6? Version 6 is the latest version and successor to version 5. Version 6 requires Node.js 18 or higher and is maintained in the 6.x branch.

The plugins for versions 5 and 6 are located at the verdaccio/monorepo repository. Plugins for the next-8 version are hosted in this project under the ./packages/plugins folder.

Note that contributing guidelines might be different based on the branch.

Verdaccio is a simple, zero-config-required local private npm registry. No need for an entire database just to get started! Verdaccio comes out of the box with its own tiny database, and the ability to proxy other registries (eg. npmjs.org), caching the downloaded modules along the way. For those looking to extend their storage capabilities, Verdaccio supports various community-made plugins to hook into services such as Amazon's s3, Google Cloud Storage or create your own plugin.

Versions

You can find more details about the different versions of Verdaccio, minimum requirements, as well as links to associated npm packages and docker images in the version history.

Install

Node.js v18 as minimum version required

Install with npm:

npm install -g verdaccio@next-8

With yarn

yarn global add verdaccio@next-8

With pnpm

pnpm i -g verdaccio@next-8

docker pull verdaccio/verdaccio:nightly-master

or with helm official chart.

helm repo add verdaccio https://charts.verdaccio.org
helm repo update
helm install verdaccio/verdaccio

Furthermore, you can read the Debugging Guidelines and the Docker Examples for more advanced development.

Plugins

You can develop your own plugins with the verdaccio generator. Installing Yeoman is required.

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-verdaccio-plugin

Learn more here how to develop plugins. Share your plugins with the community.

End to End Testing

In our compatibility testing project, we're dedicated to ensuring that your favorite commands work seamlessly across different versions of npm, pnpm, and Yarn. From publishing packages to managing dependencies. Our goal is to give you the confidence to use your preferred package manager without any issues. So dive in, check out our matrix, and see how your commands fare across the board!

Learn or contribute here

Commands

cmd	npm6	npm7	npm8	npm9	npm10	pnpm8	pnpm9	pnpm10	yarn1	yarn2	yarn3	yarn4
publish	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
unpublish	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
info	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
audit	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
install	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
deprecate	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
ping	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
search	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
star	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
stars	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⛔	⛔	⛔	⛔
dist-tag	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌

notes:

yarn search cmd exist in modern but, it do not uses the search registry endpoint.

yarn modern has two info commands, the one used here is yarn npm info

❌ = no tested ✅ = tested ⛔ = no supported

Donations

Verdaccio is run by volunteers; nobody is working full-time on it. If you find this project to be useful and would like to support its development, consider doing a long support donation - and your logo will be on this section of the readme.

Donate 💵👍🏻 starting from $1/month or just one single contribution.

What does Verdaccio do for me?

Use private packages

If you want to use all benefits of npm package system in your company without sending all code to the public, and use your private packages just as easy as public ones.

Cache npmjs.org registry

If you have more than one server you want to install packages on, you might want to use this to decrease latency (presumably "slow" npmjs.org will be connected to only once per package/version) and provide limited failover (if npmjs.org is down, we might still find something useful in the cache) or avoid issues like How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript, Many packages suddenly disappeared or Registry returns 404 for a package I have installed before.

Link multiple registries

If you use multiples registries in your organization and need to fetch packages from multiple sources in one single project you might take advance of the uplinks feature with Verdaccio, chaining multiple registries and fetching from one single endpoint.

Override public packages

If you want to use a modified version of some 3rd-party package (for example, you found a bug, but maintainer didn't accept pull request yet), you can publish your version locally under the same name. See in detail here.

E2E Testing

Verdaccio has proved to be a lightweight registry that can be booted in a couple of seconds, fast enough for any CI. Many open source projects use Verdaccio for end to end testing, to mention some examples, create-react-app, mozilla neutrino, pnpm, storybook, babel.js, angular-cli or docusaurus. You can read more in here.

Furthermore, here few examples how to start:

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Get Started

Run in your terminal

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You would need set some npm configuration, this is optional.

npm set registry http://localhost:4873/

For one-off commands or to avoid setting the registry globally:

NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY=http://localhost:4873 npm i

Now you can navigate to http://localhost:4873/ where your local packages will be listed and can be searched.

Warning: Verdaccio does not currently support PM2's cluster mode, running it with cluster mode may cause unknown behavior.

Publishing

1. create a user and log in

npm adduser --registry http://localhost:4873

if you use HTTPS, add an appropriate CA information ("null" means get CA list from OS)

npm set ca null

2. publish your package

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

This will prompt you for user credentials which will be saved on the verdaccio server.

Docker

Below are the most commonly needed information, every aspect of Docker and verdaccio is documented separately

docker pull verdaccio/verdaccio:nightly-master

Available as tags.

Running Verdaccio using Docker

To run the docker container:

docker run -it --rm --name verdaccio -p 4873:4873 verdaccio/verdaccio

Docker examples are available in this repository.

Compatibility

Verdaccio aims to support all features of a standard npm client that make sense to support in a private repository. Unfortunately, it isn't always possible.

Basic features

Installing packages (npm install, npm update, etc.) - supported
Publishing packages (npm publish) - supported

Advanced package control

Unpublishing packages (npm unpublish) - supported
Tagging (npm dist-tag) - supported
Deprecation (npm deprecate) - supported

User management

Registering new users (npm adduser {newuser}) - supported
Change password (npm profile set password) - supported
Transferring ownership (npm owner) - supported
Token (npm token) - supported

Miscellaneous

Searching (npm search) - supported (cli / browser)
Ping (npm ping) - supported
Starring (npm star, npm unstar, npm stars) - supported

Security

Audit (npm/yarn audit) - supported

Report a vulnerability

If you want to report a security vulnerability, please follow the steps which we have defined for you in our security policy.

Special Thanks

Thanks to the following companies to help us to achieve our goals providing free open source licenses. Every company provides enough resources to move this project forward.

Company	Logo	License
JetBrains		JetBrains provides licenses for products for active maintainers, renewable yearly
Crowdin		Crowdin provides platform for translations
BrowserStack		BrowserStack provides plan to run End to End testing for the UI
Netlify		Netlify provides pro plan for website deployment
Algolia		Algolia provides search services for the website
Docker		Docker offers unlimited pulls and unlimited egress to any and all users

Maintainers

Juan Picado	Ayush Sharma	Sergio Hg

	@ayusharma_	@sergiohgz
Priscila Oliveria	Daniel Ruf

@priscilawebdev	@DanielRufde

You can find and chat with them over Discord, click here.

Who is using Verdaccio?

create-react-app (+86.2k ⭐️)
Grafana (+54.9k ⭐️)
Gatsby (+49.2k ⭐️)
Babel.js (+38.5k ⭐️)
Docusaurus (+34k ⭐️)
Vue CLI (+27.4k ⭐️)
Angular CLI (+24.3k ⭐️)
Uppy (+23.8k ⭐️)
bit (+13k ⭐️)
Aurelia Framework (+11.6k ⭐️)
pnpm (+10.1k ⭐️)
ethereum/web3.js (+9.8k ⭐️)
Webiny CMS (+6.6k ⭐️)
NX (+6.1k ⭐️)
Mozilla Neutrino (+3.7k ⭐️)
workshopper how to npm (+1k ⭐️)
Amazon SDK v3
Amazon Encryption SDK for Javascript

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Contributors

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FAQ / Contact / Troubleshoot

If you have any issue you can try the following options. Do no hesitate to ask or check our issues database. Perhaps someone has asked already what you are looking for.

License

Verdaccio is MIT licensed

The Verdaccio documentation and logos (excluding /thanks, e.g., .md, .png, .sketch files within the /assets folder) are Creative Commons licensed.