Securing Your Registry
No want their private repository / registry full of their code to get breached, so Verdaccio also offers many ways to secure our NPM registry, many of them are listed below :
- Disable User Registration: Prevent unauthorized users from registering by setting max_user: -1 in the full.yaml file, ensuring only authorized users can access and contribute to the registry.
- Setting Rate Limits: Control access to critical endpoints by implementing rate limits, ensuring that requests are limited to prevent abuse or overload. Adjust limits as needed with the userRateLimit configuration option.
- JSON Web Token (JWT): Utilize JWT features to manage token expiration, enhancing security by automatically invalidating tokens after a specified period. This improves authentication performance and reduces overhead for authentication plugins.
How to Set Up a Private NPM Registry
In this article we will learn how to install and configure a private NPM registry, and control authentication and access controls to users, also we will learn how to publish packages to npm and download and use them in our project. In this article, we will use Verdaccio, a lightweight and easy-to-use software. We will also learn how to create user accounts, and securely push and download packages from our server.
Table of Content
- What is NPM Registry?
- Choosing a Registry Solution
- Installation Steps
- User Access Control
- Publishing Packages
- Securing Your Registry
- Conclusion
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