Set Up your Client’s npmrc Using Azure Artifacts Token on Windows

Azure DevOps artifacts authentication using npmrc files on a windows PC

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Azure Artifacts requires authentication for you to install or publish npm packages hosted in Azure DevOps. Today we will take a look at how we can set up this authentication using an npmrc configuration file.

An npmrc file contains configuration settings that npm uses. And it bears the name .npmrc.

Get credentials from Azure

To get started, login into your Azure DevOps account, select any project and then click on Artifacts. Then select Connect to feed.

After clicking on Connecting to feed you will be presented with several package management tools.

Select npm because that is what we are looking at in this article.

Installing artifacts credentials provider.

Before you proceed further, make sure you install the credentials provider npm package globally by running the following command in your terminal.