FrontEnd Pipelines: Using private NPM Repositories.

[david_dorr1]

Adobe has documentation about how we would use Pipeline secrets and ENV variables to use a Private Maven Repository.

Is there something similar for the FrontEnd Sites projects and NPM??

e.g, if in my package.json I had this..

"dependencies": {
"my-private-repo": "git+https://${GITHUB_PAT_KEY}@github.com/My-Organization/Private-REPO.git"
}

I have been sandboxing this, and found that:

• Simply having GITHUB_PAT_KEY as a Pipeline secret does not work, as NPM is not picking up on the ENV variable.
• We cannot have exposed PAT keys in the codebase, and so the PAT must always be an ENV secret somewhere.
• I have tried using a npm preinstall which would insert the PAT key from process.env, but the pipeline is not able to run npm preinstall.
• Using git submodules or similar may have problems due to the predefined npm commands that the pipeline is using..

In short, how do we use a private repo as a dependancy for our Sites theme where it would build using the pipeline?

[TarunKumar]

Hi @david_dorr1 ,

Please make sure you have below configuration in pom file.
npm and node versions you can mention as per ypour project requirement.

ui-frontend module POM.xml
<plugin>
                <groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
                <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>npm run prod</id>
                        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>npm</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <arguments>run prod</arguments>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
main pom.xml

<configuration>
<nodeVersion>v18.18.2</nodeVersion>
            <npmVersion>9.8.1</npmVersion>
</configuration>

-Tarun

[arunpatidar]

Hi @david_dorr1 
Could you please check below if that helps

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-cloud-kcs/kbarticles/ka-23063 

[h_kataria · Accepted solution]

Check if this helps https://www.netcentric.biz/insights/2020/08/private-repository-cloud-manager It has a well explained section on how you can use pipeline variables for private NPM dependencies.
Hope this helps.