NPM: how to specify registry to publish in the command line?

Question

I'm testing a new version of our npm packages registry. I'd like to run a job in our CI server specifying a registry different of the default.

I tried to execute npm publish --registry "http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs-registry but it didn't work. It was published to the default registry.

How do I specify a different registry while running npm publish. It is a scoped package.

Answer 1

There's multiple ways to accomplish this.

1) use npm config to set the registry globally:

npm config set registry http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs

2) use npm config to set the registry for the package scope:

npm config set @<your scope here>:registry http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs

3) configure your package.json with a publish config:

{
  ...
  "publishConfig": {
    "registry": "http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs"
  },
  ...
}

4) use npmrc to configure the registry

registry=http://nexus.dsv.myhost/nexus/repository/npmjs