The server is offline, and the installation package uploaded to the server is 404

[huangyiman]

Your Environment
verdaccio version: 5.32.1
node version [18.18.0]:
package manager: [[email protected]]
os: [linux]

Problem description
My server is offline. When I installed the package from verdaccio, the dependent package got a package 404 error because the package was dependent on a remote third-party package. What can I do to solve this problem?

Here is my config file:

storage: ./storage
auth:
  htpasswd:
    file: ./htpasswd
uplinks:
  npmjs:
    url: https://registry.npmmirror.com/
publish:
  allow_offline: true
packages:
  '@*/*':
    access: $all
    publish: ["root"]  # $authenticated
    unpublish: ["root"] #  $authenticated
    proxy: npmjs
  '**':
    access: $all
    publish: ["root"]
    unpublish: ["root"]
    proxy: npmjs
log:
 { type: file, path: verdaccio.log, level: debug }
listen: 0.0.0.0:4873

[juanpicado]

When I installed the package from verdaccio, the dependent package got a package 404 error because the package was dependent on a remote third-party package. What can I do to solve this problem?

Get back online, if the package is not cached in your local instance there is nothing verdaccio can do about it.

[huangyiman]

Thank you for your quick reply.
You mean I have to find a way to put all the dependency packages on the server for users to install. This is a nightmare for me with too many dependency packages.
Is there a better solution?

[juanpicado]

You mean I have to find a way to put all the dependency packages on the server for users to install. This is a nightmare for me with too many dependency packages.
Is there a better solution?

Well, you should cache all your dependencies (the whole tree of dependencies) at verdaccio before goes offline, otherwise they are not accessible, the offline mode works only if you have all you need. Verdaccio cache by demand but cannot magically just have them if you haven't downloaded before.

It's ideal to have a warm cache frequently in your computer and whenever you goes offline, even if you clean cache in your package manager verdaccio will find them at local storage, of course, deps updates happens all the time and those need to be also preloaded whenever you are online and so on.

I guess you will be back online eventually, doesn't? I would expect that.