Use artifactory without remote npm repository

Question

I'm working in an environment where artifactory does not have internet access. We would like to use artifactory as a npm registry and host. Is it possible to upload external dependencies and their transitive dependencies?

For example: I'm on a computer with internet access and downloaded webpack and all its dependencies using npm install. Now I go to a different network with artifactory access and want to upload my node_modules Folder. Does that work somehow?

Answer 1

In addition to Artifactory's proxy/caching features, it can also host multiple local repositories (such as npm repositories) in it. This basically means that you can create an npm local repository in Artifactory and deploy any npm *.tgz packages (your dependencies) into this repository and Artifactory will generate the relevant metadata for your client. All you'll need to do is to deploy the relevant packages and configur your npm clients to resolve from Artifactory.