Hello, is it possible to configure Nexus to use GitHub Packages as a npm proxy? HTTP authentication option doesn’t seem to work. Here are GitHub docs how to do it locally: Configuring npm for use with GitHub Packages - GitHub Docs But no luck with Nexus npm proxy.

Update: I have updated Nexus to the newest Linux version (OSS 3.27.0-03). Now I have the option to setup HTTP Authentication as “Preemptive Bearer Token”. And now, it seems that Nexus can talk with GitHub npm repo, but there must be some a bug, because downloading tarball does not work. It responds …

Update 2 and solution: In my opinion there is some serious bug in Nexus. But it works. What you need to do is to use a classic HTTP Username authentication, as username you GH username, and as password - personal token. Now you must uncheck checkbox “Validate that all content uploaded to this repos…

Update 3: Ok, that was not a solution. It seemed to work, but it didn’t - I was not able to install any other version of the package without invalidating the cache. Here is a PR with the fix: NEXUS-23750 - Does not support npm GitHub Package Registry by marverix · Pull Request #79 · sonatype/nexus…

I am facing the similar issue of 404 which started coming abruptly. We are on nexus version -3.38.1 node version - v18.7.0 pnpm version - v7.8.0 I am using the proxy repo to connect to github and tried testing using the bearer token and even username and password as token. Nothing was chang…

Hi All, Just got the proxy to GitHub Packages working on Nexus Repository 3.55 with the following: Nexus Repo 3.55 Remote Storage URL: https://npm.pkg.github.com Authentication type: Preemptive Bearer Token (SO NOT the username one) Token: OBTAINED_TOKEN_FROM_GITHUB Enabled: Enable redirects …

Hi All, will this also work for Maven artifacts? (pom.xml, *.jar, …) ? I´m trying to setup a proxy Repo in Nexus for my Github package(s) - but couln´nt get that working. Any advice would be very appreciated Thx, Torsten

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emeric.colombe (Emeric Colombe) May 24, 2023, 11:50am 6

Hi Prashant, did you find a solution to your problem ?

I’m trying to install npm package aframe@1.3.0, but it fails on its three-bmfont-text dependency because it is hosted on github

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