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Hi, well nice to know that. Is there anything I can do about it?

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Sorry, the end of your readme suggested that you were looking for other alternatives.

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Sorry, the end of your readme suggested that you were looking for other alternatives.

Oh that one... Yeah, I was looking for them a few months ago, see discussion here. So I started this repository with just one big README file listing how private registry should look like.

But since nothing good was found, I just renamed the repository and basically started a new project. So README still has that old info about other alternatives, although it's probably time to remove that already, since server works quite well on production for 6 months now.

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No worries. I ran into the same issues and thus created docker-npmjs. There are still things I would like to add or change, but it gets the job done and is easy to setup for most people.

Fill free to reach out if there's anything I can help with, but in the meantime, I'm closing the issue. ✨

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There are still things I would like to add or change, but it gets the job done and is easy to setup for most people.

I'm not exactly familiar with docker (although I see couchdb calls, and that dependency I was specifically trying to avoid). But calling hapi+kappa easy to setup is a joke, really. :)

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Docker is a linux container (lxc), think of it as a very lightweight virtual machine. docker-npmjs is a prepackaged container that setups a working private installation for npmjs for you, using the same code that's running the public registry. It also setups kappa for you, so you don't have to do anything but point your npm to a new registry.

None of this affects your host machine, and is designed to be reproducible on any machine. The image that's created by the Dockerfile can be copied to any and as many machines running docker as you want, they'll all behave exactly the same way.

All that said, I understand the desire to avoid CouchDB, and I'm seriously happy there's alternatives like your project around.

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Yeah, I understand now how it works.

Just one question: why did you migrate to kappa? npm-delegate was an awesome project, and that ascii diagram just explaines how it works without any need for reading a readme or writing a config. But those kappa guys just completely spoiled it. :)

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Simply: Kappa supports read-write support with just minimal extra configuration, which significantly lowers the barrier of entry for it to "just work".

I might have also been given a recommendation that I look into other alternatives for the npm-delegate project.

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