Creating a new user account on the public registry | npm Docs (2024)

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Inviting members to your organization

In the left sidebar, click the name of your organization. On the organization settings page, click Members. Click the Invite Members button. In the "Username or email" field, type the username or email address of the person you wish to invite.

Inviting members to your organization

In the left sidebar, click the name of your organization. On the organization settings page, click Members. Click the Invite Members button. In the "Username or email" field, type the username or email address of the person you wish to invite.

To authenticate by logging in to npm, use the npm login command, replacing USERNAME with your GitHub username, TOKEN with your personal access token (classic), and PUBLIC-EMAIL-ADDRESS with your email address.

Authentication: You can use the . npmrc file to store authentication tokens or credentials for private registries or services. Proxy Configuration: If you're behind a corporate proxy, you can configure npm to work through the proxy by setting proxy-related options in the . npmrc file.

Description. Create or verify a user named <username> in the specified registry, and save the credentials to the . npmrc file.

If you've used npm before, your machine probably points at npm's public registry: https://registry.npmjs.org/. You can check by running the command: npm config get registry in your terminal. If you want to change your registry to a private one, you can run npm config set registry <name-of-registry>.

The public npm registry is a database of JavaScript packages, each comprised of software and metadata. Open source developers and developers at companies use the npm registry to contribute packages to the entire community or members of their organizations, and download packages to use in their own projects.

You can show the registry of a specific package with the npm view command. When you use npm config get registry you will see the default registry.

How to modify npm config? ›

The Yarn maintainers recommend installing Yarn globally by using the NPM package manager, which is included by default with all Node. js installations. Use the -g flag with npm install to do this: sudo npm install -g yarn.

npm i: npm install searches the package. json file for a list of required packages and versions and then installs those Node. js packages and dependencies.

npm run sets the NODE environment variable to the node executable with which npm is executed. If you try to run a script without having a node_modules directory and it fails, you will be given a warning to run npm install , just in case you've forgotten.

Granting access to a private user package on the web

On the npm website, go to the package to which you want to add a collaborator: https://www.npmjs.com/package/<your-package-name> . On the package page, click the "Settings" tab. Go to the "Invite maintainer" section. Enter the npm username of the collaborator.

There are a little over 211,000 registered npm users, of whom about 73,000 have published packages. But far more people than that use npm: most things npm does do not require you to login or register.