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

Place the below within your .ebextensions/app.config.

files:
  "/tmp/.npmrc":
    mode: "000777"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=$NPM_TOKEN

Where NPM_TOKEN is an environment variable with the value of your actual npmjs auth token.

Note that environment variables within elasticbeanstalk can and should be set from within the AWS console Elasticbeanstalk software configuration tab.

AWS Elasticbeanstalk Configuration