Your configured registry does not support audit requests ~ On npm audit

Question

I have 1 dependency in a form of "protobufjs": "git+https://github.com/danieldanielecki/protobufjs-angularfire.git#master", i.e. installed using npm install --save https://github.com/danieldanielecki/protobufjs-angularfire#master. Is there any way to include this in npm audit? Whenever I'm trying to audit the package, which I need to fetch that way my npm audit fails with the following error:

$ npm audit
npm ERR! code ENOAUDIT
npm ERR! audit Your configured registry (https://registry.npmjs.org/) does not support audit requests, or the audit endpoint is temporarily unavailable.

This is really annoying in terms of CI, because my pipeline fails then.

This question is unrealted with `npm audit` keeps returning "Your configured registry (https://registry.npmjs.org/) does not support audit requests.". How do I make it work again?, didn't find answer there (or anywhere else).

Answer 1

Thanks to @broofa for a quick test and a fresh idea, solution:

1. rm -rf node_modules
2. npm install
3. npm install https://github.com/danieldanielecki/protobufjs-angularfire#master
4. npm audit works again!

There was some problem with incompatibility or something in node_modules, I did also delete npm-shrinkwrap.json and generated a new one.