Publishing npm publish to nexus group repo

Question

I'm running nexus repo manager oss3.2.1 on a local machine.

I have defined three npm repos in nexus:

• [PUBLIC] - a proxy for public npm registry
• [PRIVATE] - a private repository for my own packages
• [NPM] - a group repository, allowing access to [PRIVATE] and [PUBLIC] in this order

I've added npm Bearer Token Realm in Settings/Security/Realms

I can download packages from [PUBLIC], which works as intended.

I can easily download packages from public:

.npmrc 
registry=http://localhost:8081/repository/PUBLIC
npm install react // works fine, downloads from [PUBLIC]

also can download from npm:

.npmrc 
registry=http://localhost:8081/repository/NPM
npm install react // works fine, downloads from [PUBLIC]

But can't download from private because there's no package named react

I don't want to publish to public and I can publish packages to private.

.npmrc 
registry=http://localhost:8081/repository/PRIVATE
npm publish // works fine, publishes to [PRIVATE]

The problem is I can't publish to npm:

.npmrc 
registry=http://localhost:8081/repository/NPM
npm publish // fails, should publish to [PRIVATE]
// gets HTTP 400

Here's the detailed log of the error: https://pastebin.com/5GuqNNhf

I know that I can set up different url(s) to publish packages usig publishConfig in package.json but that's just duplicating the config. Can I do this with nexus group repo?

Answer 1

Group cannot be published. I'll suggest you to change the URL to a URL of a hosted npm repo. Hope it helps.