Install npm module from gitlab private repository

Question

We are using GitLab for our private project. There are some forked libraries from github, that we want to install as npm module. Installing that module directly from npm is

Answer 1

Just for anyone else who stumbles across this, I couldn't get it working over HTTPS at all - seems it doesn't support the direct link to the repo (e.g. https://git.domain.com/user/somerepo.git), nor does it support the .tar, .tar.bz or .zip archive versions.

It only seems to work with the .tar.gz archive.

Full example (with tagged version):

https://git.domain.com/user/somerepo/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=v1.2.3