How configure private NPM registry in Azure Devops?

[persyl]

Bug Report

I'm building a Azure Static web app and it works fine but I want to use my private registry for NPM packages and can not get it to work or find documentation about how to do it.

My private registry is at: https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/MY-ORG-NAME/_packaging/MY-NPM-FEED-NAME/npm/registry/

• What happened?
  Error 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/MY-NPM-PACKAGE - Not found

• What did you expect or want to happen?

• To install MY-NPM-PACKAGE from https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/MY-ORG-NAME/_packaging/MY-NPM-FEED-NAME/npm/registry/ and NOT trying from https://registry.npmjs.org

I have a file .npmrc in the root

https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/MY-ORG-NAME/_packaging/MY-NPM-FEED-NAME/npm/registry/:username=foo
https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/MY-ORG-NAME/_packaging/MY-NPM-FEED-NAME/npm/registry/:_password=MY-SECRET-HERE
https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/MY-ORG-NAME/_packaging/MY-NPM-FEED-NAME/npm/registry/:email=foo@bar.com

[qianz2]

Hello @persyl, for nodejs apps, we have a NPM_REGISTRY_URL setting key which allows you to specify custom NPM registry URL. Will be written to .npmrc during the build. Could you give it a try and see if it can resolve your issue?

[persyl]

Well @qianz2 I have tried it and hopefully the correct way, as you can see in my posting here:

Azure/static-web-apps#44 (comment)

I put NPM_REGISTRY_URL (and other variables) under env as you can see.
Should I put them in another place?!

[qianz2]

Hello @persyl , Could you share what's the logs after you run this workflow? I want to know if the .npmrc file is being read or not. We'll add this issue to our backlogs.

[qianz2]

Let us know if you have other following up questions, closing the issue now.