Baggy NPM Registry

Baggy is a reverse engineered NPM registry with a modular structure.

You can provide your own functionality for storing artifacts and metadata.

Disclaimer

Baggy is not a production-ready registry. I have started this project for learning purposes and maybe at some point it can be used for specific setups. For now unit tests are missing as well as support for a few npm commands.

This Project is als not published on NPM yet.

Supported npm commands

• install/update/view
• publish
• unpublish
• audit (will proxy to the npm registry)
• ping
• dist-tag
• deprecate
• login
• whoami
• team
• token
• search
• stars
• star
• unstar

Requirements

• yarn 1.x
• node 12.x (newer versions might work, but are not tested)

Setup

Clone the registry, then run one of those commands

• yarn install
• yarn serve to start the express server with filestorage
• yarn serve-sqlite to start the express server with sqlite storage

you can now run npm/yarn commands against http://localhost:3000 by setting the "registry" option

Development

Quickstart

1. Run yarn install to install dependencies
2. Run yarn serve to start express server
3. Open a separate Terminal
4. Run make test to execute the test script which will execute a few commands like publish and install

Using ts-node and nodemon we can restart the server on any file changes that affect the server.

Files will be to the project root in .local. If the directory does not exist, it will be created.

Formatting

Code will be formatted on commit with pretty-quick. Also there is yarn lint

Future Plans

More providers

Future Providers could be something like these:

• AWS DynamoDB for Metadata
• Other cloud providers

Authentication

Login should probably not be implemented in the core project (@baggy/registry), but rather as a kind of middleware for express and other implementations