Publishing npm module on Verdaccio from Docker gitlab CI

Question

I am trying to publish a module on my private Verdaccio repository from Gitlab CI running in Docker. I followed this tutorial and I generated the token on my host (because the container which will run jobs does not exist until the pipeline starts).

image: node:11-alpine

stages:
  - test
  - publish

before_script: 
  - npm set registry http://nodejs.repo.asts.com
  - npm i

test:
  stage: test
  script: 
    - npm run lint
    - npm t
  coverage: '/All files\s*\|\s*(\d{1,3}(?:\.\d+)?)/'

publish:
  stage: publish
  script:
    - echo "//nodejs.repo.asts.com/:_authToken=\"$NPM_AUTH_TOKEN\"" > ~/.npmrc
    - cat ~/.npmrc
    - npm whoami
    - npm publish

The job fails with following error:

$ npm whoami
npm ERR! code ENEEDAUTH
npm ERR! need auth this command requires you to be logged in.
npm ERR! need auth You need to authorize this machine using `npm adduser`

But the cat command shows that the token has expected value.

I do not understand if the problem is that Verdaccio does not support tokens or the way I generated it. I also found a plugin but I cannot figure out how should be used.

How should I configure my gitlab CI to publish a package on Verdaccio?

Answer 1

It should work as @Hedge said: saving the token in a .npmrc file in the project folder:

image: node:11-alpine

stages:
  - test
  - publish

before_script: 
  - npm set registry http://nodejs.repo.asts.com
  - npm i

test:
  stage: test
  script: 
    - npm run lint
    - npm t
  coverage: '/All files\s*\|\s*(\d{1,3}(?:\.\d+)?)/'

publish:
  stage: publish
  script:
    - echo "//nodejs.repo.asts.com/:_authToken=\"$NPM_AUTH_TOKEN\"" > .npmrc
    - npm whoami
    - npm publish