verdaccio/verdaccio

Health v2 · maintenance only

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17843 stars · 1475 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Verdaccio is a lightweight, zero-config private npm proxy registry built in Node.js. It hosts private packages, proxies and caches upstream registries like npmjs.org, and works with npm, yarn, and pnpm clients.

Use cases

• host private npm packages for my company
• cache npm registry packages to speed up CI installs
• run a local npm registry for offline development
• proxy npmjs.org through a single internal endpoint
• override a third-party npm package with a patched version
• set up a private registry with Docker or Kubernetes

When to choose

• you need private package publishing without running a full database
• you want to cache npm dependencies for faster, more reliable installs
• you need to chain multiple upstream registries behind one endpoint
• you want a lightweight registry deployable via Docker or Helm

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured enterprise artifact manager with multi-format support (consider Nexus or Artifactory)
• you need high-availability clustering out of the box
• you only consume public packages and don't need caching or private packages

Facets

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http-server caching proxy auth package-manager self-hosted cli plugin-system developer-tools self-hosted security web-development self-hosted cli cross-platform npm-registry private-registry registry-proxy monorepo offline-cache helm-chart yarn pnpm devops nodejs docker kubernetes

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