Self-host Verdaccio

A lightweight private npm registry that hosts your own packages and caches the public npm registry as a proxy. It stores packages on local disk and needs no external database.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 256 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# Verdaccio — official image, package storage in a named volume
docker run -d --name verdaccio --restart unless-stopped -p 4873:4873 \
  -v verdaccio-storage:/verdaccio/storage verdaccio/verdaccio:6
# open http://SERVER_IP:4873 — then: npm adduser --registry http://SERVER_IP:4873/

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