Node Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

We will use a tool called sinopia.

We install it with npm:

npm install -g sinopia 

Next, simply start sinopia as a service:

sinopia &> /dev/null & 

Alternatively, this is if we're on Windows:

START /B "" sinopia > nul 2> nul 

In order to publish to our local registry, we'll need to configure npm to point at Sinopia's HTTP endpoint.

We can do so with the following command:

npm set registry http://localhost:4873 

Hosting Sinopia In order to host Sinopia, either over the public Internet or within cloud infrastructure on in-house metal, several Sinopia settings need to be configured. These settings are typically located at ~/.config/sinopia/config.yaml, although we can pass our own file with sinopia my-config.yaml. In particular, ...