How to pre-load reggie with a bunch of npm mods?

[virtualandy]

We've been struggling to get a full blown npm repo running in a private environment (not to mention, we don't really need all those modules...).

If we give reggie a shot, how could we preload a bunch of modules (say, express, socket.io, underscore, mongodb, etc) into reggie so that we could install from them as well. Worst case we could map registry.npmjs.org to our.local.reggie or something.

[bajtos]

Hi @virtualandy, I am afraid there isn't an easy out-of-the-box way how to achieve that.

What you can do:

1. Clear your npm cache:

   $ rm -rf ~/.npm

2. Create a dummy folder and install all modules you would like to have in your mirror

   $ npm install express
   $ npm install socket.io
   #(etc.)

3. Upload all tgz files from your ~/.npm cache into reggie (note you have to do a recursive find). Something along these lines (I didn't test it myself):

   for f in `find ~/.npm -name '*.tgz'`; do
      # extract name/version from the path
      NAME_VER = `echo $f | sed 's/^.*\/\([^\/]*\)\/\([^\/]*\)\/package.tgz/\1\/\2/'`
      # upload via PUT request to the reggie server
      curl -T $f http://reggie-server:port/package/$NAME_VER
   done

[virtualandy]

OK, that's easy enough. Thanks, we'll have to give this a shot at some point and see how it goes. Thanks for working on reggie, I think something like this is going to be a must-have for some Node users (hence why StrongLoop just pub'd this). :)