[question] Cannot publish to private registry via the Node.js API

[kittaakos]

Describe the bug
I have different behavior when publishing via the CLI and the Node.js API. I set a repository to demonstrate the issue. For the completeness, I would like to publish a bunch of npm packages to verdaccio and use the private NPM registry when building my electron application.

To Reproduce
Node.js API
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clone https://github.com/kittaakos/verdaccio-publish.git.
2. Run yarn --cwd ./publisher-node-api && yarn --cwd ./publisher-node-api test

Successfully logged in.
Publishing 'my-private-package' into the private NPM registry.
[1/4] Bumping version...
info Current version: 1.0.0
[2/4] Logging in...
[3/4] Publishing...
error Couldn't publish package: "http://localhost:4873/my-private-package: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT"
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/publish for documentation about this command.

It seems to work when I use the CLI way. But I usually end up with a dangling verdaccio process. I would like to start and stop the server in JS. Is it possible? It seems to work with the CLI way:

CLI
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clone https://github.com/kittaakos/verdaccio-publish.git.
2. Run yarn --cwd ./publisher-cli && yarn --cwd ./publisher-cli test

Waiting for the NPM registry startup.
.. warn --- config file  - /Users/akos.kitta/Desktop/verdaccio-publish/publisher-cli/verdaccio-config.yml
 warn --- Plugin successfully loaded: htpasswd
 warn --- Plugin successfully loaded: audit
 warn --- http address - http://localhost:4873/ - verdaccio/3.8.6
 http <-- 200, user: null(127.0.0.1), req: 'HEAD /', bytes: 0/0
 http <-- 201, user: 2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba(127.0.0.1), req: 'PUT /-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba', bytes: 97/189

info attempt registry request try #1 at 17:31:22
http request PUT http://localhost:4873/-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba
Successfully logged in.
Publishing 'my-private-package' into the private NPM registry.
[1/4] Bumping version...
info Current version: 1.0.0
[2/4] Logging in...
[3/4] Publishing...
 http --> 404, req: 'GET https://registry.npmjs.org/my-private-package' (streaming)
 http --> 404, req: 'GET https://registry.npmjs.org/my-private-package', bytes: 0/21
 http <-- 201, user: 2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba(127.0.0.1), req: 'PUT /my-private-package', bytes: 1198/53
success Published.
[4/4] Revoking token...
info Not revoking login token, specified via config file.
🎉
 http <-- 409, user: null(127.0.0.1), req: 'PUT /-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba', error: username is already registered
http 409 http://localhost:4873/-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba
info attempt registry request try #1 at 17:31:24
http request GET http://localhost:4873/-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba?write=true
 http <-- 200, user: null(127.0.0.1), req: 'GET /-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba?write=true', bytes: 0/53
http 200 http://localhost:4873/-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba?write=true
info attempt registry request try #1 at 17:31:24
http request PUT http://localhost:4873/-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba/-rev/undefined
 http <-- 201, user: 2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba(127.0.0.1), req: 'PUT /-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba/-rev/undefined', bytes: 385/201
http 201 http://localhost:4873/-/user/org.couchdb.user:2402372f-7afd-43ca-8349-860e514cadba/-rev/undefined
(node:30369) [DEP0013] DeprecationWarning: Calling an asynchronous function without callback is deprecated.

What is the preferred way if the Node.js API cannot be used. By the way, It was strange, I had to manually set the self_path on the configuration object. See here.

If this issue nneeds more context, please let me know.

Thank you!

[kittaakos]

@juanpicado, let me know if you need more input for this issue. Thanks!

[juanpicado]

@kittaakos I've had no time to look deeply into it yet, but your provided input is quite good 👍 thanks . First time I see this approach. This is on my queue of tasks 📓 .