How to use a private npm registry on Elastic Beanstalk?

Question

We have a nodejs project running on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk that uses private modules that we host using nodejitsu\'s private npm registry.

However getting access t

Answer 1

Using an .npmrc within the project also works. For example...

.npmrc

registry=https://npm.mydomain.com

You may want to .gitignore this file if you include an _authToken line but make sure you don't .ebignore it so it's correctly bundled up with each deployment. After trying a few things unsuccessfully, I came across this post which made me realize specifying it locally in a project is possible.