Private NPM Package deployment using VSTS

How to publish and consume NPM packages with VSTS

In my previous article, I explained how you can automate the deployment of your internal Nuget packages using VSTS and how to consume them. Today, I’m going to show you how you can use a very similar setup to build, deploy and consume NPM package all within VSTS.

We will create a simple package that will allow us to audit our function calls. In reality, it is just going to print it out to the console; probably not a practical example but it will suffice for this article.

Prerequisites:

run the command

The -y flag means that it will construct the package.json for us and populates some of it to help us get started.

Okay I’ve exported a simple function called audit which just prints out the input.

Okay, let’s look at our package.json

I’ve customized some of the default information generated by the -y flag.

Head over to your VSTS account and let’s create our feed.

You should have the package extension already installed within your VSTS tenancy. Now head over to the Builds and Releases — Packages

Let’s create a new feed:

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