Publishing NPM module to github packages registry from Github Actions? - github

Question

My YML so far, kept adding bits based on other stackoverflow threads + docs:
name: Node install, build and test
on: [push]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
node-version: [12.x]
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v1
- name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
uses: actions/setup-node#v1
with:
node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
- name: Create NPMRC
run: echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" > ~/.npmrc
env:
NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
- name: Publish to Github Packages
run: |
npm config set _auth $NODE_AUTH_TOKEN
npm publish
env:
NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
In my package.json I have:
"publishConfig": {
"registry": "https://npm.pkg.github.com/"
},
And with the above config I keep getting
E400 Bad Request
Your request could not be authenticated by the Github Pacakges service. Please ensure your access token is valid and has the appropriate scopes configured.

Answer 1

You are writing the wrong content to the ~/.npmrc file.
It should be //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} but you are doing //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}