morose

Run npm registry or npm proxy on your own servers.

morose allows you to have a local npm registry with zero configuration. You don't have to install and replicate an entire CouchDB database. morose keeps its own small database and, if a package doesn't exist there, it asks npmjs.org for it keeping only those packages you use.

Table of contents

• Compatibility
• Use Cases
• Installation
• Usage
• Running Tests
• Hacking on morose
• Setting up nginx reverse proxy
• Inspiration

Compatibility

morose is compatible with npm version 5 and beyond.

Use cases

• Use private packages.

If you want to use all benefits of npm package system in your company without sending all code to the public, and use your private packages just as easy as public ones.

• Cache npmjs.org registry.

If you have more than one server you want to install packages on, you might want to use this to decrease latency (presumably "slow" npmjs.org will be connected to only once per package/version) and provide limited failover (if npmjs.org is down, we might still find something useful in the cache).

• Override public packages.

If you want to use a modified version of some 3rd-party package (for example, you found a bug, but maintainer didn't accept pull request yet), you can publish your version locally under the same name.

Installation

$ npm install morose -g

Usage

Running a Server

morose

When you start a server for the first time, configuration is created in ~/.morose directory.

Now you can navigate to http://localhost:10000 in your browser where your packages can seen and searched.

Setting up npm config to use morose

npm set registry http://localhost:10000

Running tests

• server unit tests

node tests/run.js

• server end-to-end tests

node tests/run_e2e.js

• app end-to-end Protractor tests

First make sure morose is running, then;

npm run protractor

Hacking on morose

Running from source

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/bleenco/morose.git --depth 1

1. Build morose project

npm run build:prod

1. Link morose to have global command

npm link

1. Run command

morose

...or, you can skip steps 2., 3. and 4. and start project in dev mode

npm run dev

Setting up nginx reverse proxy

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name morose.example.com;
 
  location / {
    proxy_set_header        Host $host;
    proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_pass              http://localhost:10000;
  }
}

Inspiration

morose is heaviliy inspired by sinopia and we also used some stuff from there. The main reason to make a new package with similar behavior is that sinopia is not updated anymore and as far as we know some npm commands doesn't work there.

morose is build with in the way that is compatible with the newest npm releases.

LICENCE

MIT