GitLab Package Group, 10 Mar 2020

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From YouTube: GitLab: How to fetch packages from npmjs.com

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Oh, hello, I'm, Tim I'm, the product manager at get lab for the packaged stage, and today, I'm gonna do a quick demo of a new feature. That's scheduled to launch in milestone, 12.9 and is actually available now on get lab calm.

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So this issue basically says that if you are looking, if you are trying to install a package that is not available in your get lab NPM registry to go out and fetch it from NPM, j/s org, so I have here a sample project. It's pretty simple. It just has a pipeline and a package.json file and if I navigate to my specific package registry I could see here that I have a package called get lab. Org slash, get lab UI, and now it's important to note that the version of this is 1.0.0.

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Okay, so now I want to actually try installing a more recent version of this package and I'm going to see if it pulls I'm. Sorry I'm going to install a more recent version of this package in my CI job and I want to see if it pulls the package from here or if it's smart enough to know to look on NPM org. So, let's take a look at my repository and my animal file.

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Okay I have to switch to my test branch.

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Okay, so here I see two jobs that or two stages that exist one for install and one for publish. We could ignore the the publish job for now and what we really care about. Is this install job.

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So what this install job is doing is for on the runner for this particular job, it's creating a configuration for my NPM RC and is basically setting it to or setting the scope to get lab org for the registry and then it's in tempting attempting to install a MPM package with the same scope, but with a version that's not available in my package registry.

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Okay, let's see if we can run this, so I will just go to CIC pipelines and let's try rerunning.

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Ok, as you could see, I have been playing with this a little bit, so we could see is rerunning now and we could tell the logs.

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So here it's just installing the docker image.

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Okay, so here we could see that it's actually installing, based on all of these NPM specific warnings that it's actually installing the package in on this specific job from the NPM j/s org, not from the package registry. So it worked so we now have enabled, by default. At the instance level, you can set up package enable forwarding of package requests for the 2np MJS org, so really excited to get some feedback on this feature and over time maybe roll out similar features for our maven and and you get and other repositories as well.

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In the meantime, if you have any questions about how this feature works or how it doesn't work, please feel free to reach out to me at tier izzie, at 'get lab calm. Thank you.