Move all packages from private npm verdaccio to AWS CodeArtifact

Question

We are using self hosted http://verdaccio.org as a private npm registry. Now we decided to move to managed AWS CodeArtifact. According to what I understand from documentation, AWS CA can only upstream to a public registry (as npmjs.com).
My question is how can I migrate all my packages including all it's versions from a private npm to AWS CA?

Thank you in advance, Oleksii.

Answer 1

Any generic migration steps from npm repository A to npm repository B should work when the destination is CodeArtifact.

I had success with a utility called 'pkgmigr8or' 1

Steps to migrate 'chalk-pipe' package from 'npmjs' to 'CodeArtifact':

1. Create a 'packages.txt' file

    $ cat packages.txt
    chalk-pipe
   

2. Login to CodeArtifact:

    $ aws codeartifact login --tool npm --repository npm-store --domain my-domain --domain-owner 123456789012
   

3. Make sure you have authentication info for both repository in '~/.npmrc' if the source is also a private repository

4. Install pkgmigr8or

    # npm install -g pkgmigr8or
   

5. Migrate all versions of the package(s):

    $ pkgmigr8or packages.txt https://my-domain-123456789012.d.codeartifact.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/npm/npm-store/
   

Other similar projects:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/registry-migrate
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-migrate