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[node.js] How to use private Github repo as npm dependency

With git there is a https format

https://github.com/equivalent/we_demand_serverless_ruby.git

This format accepts User + password

https://bot-user:[email protected]/equivalent/we_demand_serverless_ruby.git

So what you can do is create a new user that will be used just as a bot, add only enough permissions that he can just read the repository you want to load in NPM modules and just have that directly in your packages.json 

 Github > Click on Profile > Settings > Developer settings > Personal access tokens > Generate new token

In Select Scopes part, check the on repo: Full control of private repositories

This is so that token can access private repos that user can see

Now create new group in your organization, add this user to the group and add only repositories that you expect to be pulled this way (READ ONLY permission !)

You need to be sure to push this config only to private repo

Then you can add this to your / packages.json (bot-user is name of user, xxxxxxxxx is the generated personal token)

// packages.json


{
  // ....
    "name_of_my_lib": "https://bot-user:[email protected]/ghuser/name_of_my_lib.git"
  // ...
}

https://blog.eq8.eu/til/pull-git-private-repo-from-github-from-npm-modules-or-bundler.html

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