Appcenter: Support authentication to private NPM registries

[atrauzzi]

I'm not able to find anywhere to configure my App Center project to authenticate to one of my Azure Devops private NPM package repositories.

Is this currently supported?

[DennisPan]

@atrauzzi You are right that there is currently no direct support of this, but you should be able to achieve a solution with environment variables plus custom scripts. This example may help: https://blog.theodo.com/2018/07/installing-private-npm-packages-appcenter-2/

[atrauzzi]

Great, thanks for the link. I'll use that in the interim as you guys figure out the best way to streamline this. 😊

[DennisPan]

Let us know if you run into any issue! Thanks for reaching out. I'm going to close this as we won't be able to get to this for a while given other priorities and that a solution exists.

cc @nrajpurkar

[atrauzzi]

@DennisPan - Hmm, it'd be better to leave this open and track it in a backlog somewhere. Otherwise it will be forgotten and will never get considered for implementation.

[DennisPan]

@atrauzzi Feel free to re-open it. At the very least I'm going to remove the "bug" label, as this is more of a feature request, not a bug. Thing change, so I cannot tell for sure, but given where we are in terms of priority, I doubt that we will get to something like this in the foreseeable future. If we get more interest from others, certainly we can revisit.

[pepoman]

Hi,
I have been also running into the private feed problem, the mentioned fix worked for me but now is failing looking for nested dependencies, so I get a 400 error when running the build, I was thinking in NPM -ci in order to not look for updated dependencies but, after checking with your support, there is no way I can add any flags to the "npm install" command, could you please advice?

[DennisPan]

@pepoman Do you mind reaching out to support again and ask them to assign the ticket to me? I'd like to take a deeper look at your build logs to understand more.

[phil-andrews]

You can also do this using an .npmrc file in your project root. It's pretty simple. This is a tutorial explaining the exact process