verdaccio/website/docs/plugins.md

id	title
plugins	Plugins

Verdaccio is a pluggable application. It can be extended in many ways, either new authentication methods, adding endpoints or using a custom storage.

There are 5 types of plugins:

• Authentication
• Middleware
• Storage
• Theme UI
• Filters

Usage

Installation

$> npm install --global verdaccio-activedirectory

verdaccio as a sinopia fork it has backward compatibility with plugins that are compatible with sinopia@1.4.0. In such case the installation is the same.

$> npm install --global sinopia-memory

Configuration

Open the config.yaml file and update the auth section as follows:

The default configuration looks like this, due we use a build-in htpasswd plugin by default that you can disable just commenting out the following lines.

Naming convention

Since version 2.0.0 until version plugins must start with the following convention:

• sinopia-xxx (deprecated and will be removed on 6.x.x)
• verdaccio-xxx

After version 5.12.0 scoped plugins are supported, for example:

auth:
  '@my-org/auth-awesome-plugin':
    foo: some value
    bar: another value
store:
  '@my-org/store-awesome-plugin':
    foo: some value
    bar: another value
middleware:
  '@my-org/middleware-awesome-plugin':
    foo: some value
    bar: another value

Authentication Configuration

auth:
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
    # max_users: 1000

and replacing them with (in case you decide to use a ldap plugin.

auth:
  activedirectory:
    url: 'ldap://10.0.100.1'
    baseDN: 'dc=sample,dc=local'
    domainSuffix: 'sample.local'

Multiple Authentication plugins

This is technically possible, making the plugin order important, as the credentials will be resolved in order.

auth:
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
    #max_users: 1000
  activedirectory:
    url: 'ldap://10.0.100.1'
    baseDN: 'dc=sample,dc=local'
    domainSuffix: 'sample.local'

Middleware Configuration

Example how to set up a middleware plugin. All middleware plugins must be defined in the middlewares namespace.

middlewares:
  audit:
    enabled: true

You might follow the audit middle plugin as base example.

Storage Configuration

:::caution

If the store property is defined in the config.yaml file, the storage property is being ignored.

:::caution

Example how to set up a storage plugin. All storage plugins must be defined in the store namespace.

store:
  memory:
    limit: 1000

Theme Configuration

npm install --global verdaccio-theme-dark

You can load only one theme at a time and pass through options if you need it.

theme:
  dark:
    option1: foo
    option2: bar

Filter Configuration (Experimental)

A real example from npm i -g verdaccio-plugin-secfilter filter plugin.

filters:
  plugin-secfilter:
    block:
      - scope: @evil # block all packages in scope
      - package: semvver # block a malicious package
      - package: @coolauthor/stolen
        versions: '>2.0.1' # block some malicious versions of previously ok package
                           # uses https://www.npmjs.com/package/semver syntax

Legacy plugins

Sinopia Plugins

:::caution

After version 6 sinopia plugins are not longer supported due the naming convention.

:::caution

If you are relying on any sinopia plugin, remember are deprecated and might no work in the future.

• sinopia-npm: auth plugin for sinopia supporting an npm registry.
• sinopia-memory: auth plugin for sinopia that keeps users in memory.
• sinopia-github-oauth-cli.
• sinopia-crowd: auth plugin for sinopia supporting atlassian crowd.
• sinopia-activedirectory: Active Directory authentication plugin for sinopia.
• sinopia-github-oauth: authentication plugin for sinopia2, supporting github oauth web flow.
• sinopia-delegated-auth: Sinopia authentication plugin that delegates authentication to another HTTP URL
• sinopia-altldap: Alternate LDAP Auth plugin for Sinopia
• sinopia-request: An easy and fully auth-plugin with configuration to use an external API.
• sinopia-htaccess-gpg-email: Generate password in htaccess format, encrypt with GPG and send via MailGun API to users.
• sinopia-mongodb: An easy and fully auth-plugin with configuration to use a mongodb database.
• sinopia-htpasswd: auth plugin for sinopia supporting htpasswd format.
• sinopia-leveldb: a leveldb backed auth plugin for sinopia private npm.
• sinopia-gitlabheres: Gitlab authentication plugin for sinopia.
• sinopia-gitlab: Gitlab authentication plugin for sinopia
• sinopia-ldap: LDAP auth plugin for sinopia.
• sinopia-github-oauth-env Sinopia authentication plugin with github oauth web flow.

All sinopia plugins should be compatible with all future verdaccio versions. Anyhow, we encourage contributors to migrate them to the modern verdaccio API and using the prefix as verdaccio-xx-name.