

With that in mind, we’ve put together a phased roll-out plan outlined below: Timeline to GAĪlthough we have published v9.0.0, we are not immediately setting this release to latest in the npm registry or considering this “Generally Available.” Our team has been coordinating with the Node.js Release WG on a phased approach to making v9 the next major version of the CLI available to the widest audience this means ensuring v9 can be safely backported to as many Node.js LTS versions as possible. Notably, Docker users should find this release to to be beneficial as we simplifie file permissions (ref.

We believe the changes made lay the ground-work for future improvements to the default npm experience long-term. Our goal with this major release was to standardize appropriate defaults and clean up legacy configurations where possible. You can start using npm v9.0.0 today by running: $ npm i -g About this release The npm CLI team has been working hard over the past few months and are happy to announce the release of the next major version – v9.0.0 Installation The steps you’d need are:Ĭreate a more local. Let’s say you want to override the global registry configured in your. a sibling to the package.json and node_modules). npmrc with the values that you want in the root of the project (i.e. To override any global settings, all you need to do is create a more local. npmrc which comes with all of the same warnings that having global anything comes with. npmrc plays and I set about fixing it.įirst of all - worth mentioning: You can have a global.

This was the first time I realized the role the. The issue, it turned out (after a lot of head scratching) was that the package lock pointed to a private registry as the first place to look, but that computer didn’t have access to that registry. Then I tried working on it on another machine to find that I couldn’t install any of the packages. I was working on a project recently and did the initial set up on one computer. When Something You Thought Worked, Stops & Global Configs This one, as you might expect from its name, for NPM. npmrc, a file I didn’t even know existed. The issue, it turned out had to do with my. That was the situation recently with npm, the reliable workhorse behind node projects. When things that used to work break, I want to understand why.
