ember-cli / ember-cli/ember-cli-update
Pick up npm config for alternative npm registries, custom ca, etc.
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Description
Unfortunately `embrer-cli-update` won't work in environments that rely on customising the npm registry.
I feel Ember is a good option for enterprises, which are often in this situation of using an internal mirror registry. It would be great to smooth the Ember upgrade experience by being able to use this tool.
Two issues here:
* using wrong registry
* not picking up custom CA certs
```
❯ ember-cli-update --to 4.12
FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/ember-cli failed, reason: self-signed certificate in certificate chain
at ClientRequest. (//node_modules/ember-cli-update/node_modules/minipass-fetch/lib/index.js:130:14)
at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:517:28)
at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:501:9)
at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:517:28)
at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
code: 'SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN',
errno: 'SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN',
type: 'system'
}
```
I assume the best way for this tool to work is that it is aware of npm config, however that is passed to npm. (env, flags, npmrc)
## Hacky solution
I have cobbled together a solution that uses [npm-conf](https://github.com/kevva/npm-conf) to grab the npm configuration and pass it into the various [pacote](https://github.com/npm/pacote?tab=readme-ov-file#options) methods' opts param.
In `boilerplate-update` I also modified these functions to take an `opts` arg to pass to pacote:
`downloadAndCheckForUpdates` `getApplicableCodemods` `getCodemods` `getVersions`.
It sort of works, but doesn't feel like the most elegant design.
## Considering something more ideal
It would be nice if `pacote` could be configured to pick up npm config out of the box.
Maybe, as an interim, `pacote` could be wrapped/proxied within `boilerplate-update` to pick up npm config when necessary. Expose that same proxy for `ember-cli-update` to make use of. This should require less changes to the various method signatures within `ember-cli-update` and `boilerplate-update`
Then there's [npm-conf](https://github.com/kevva/npm-conf) not npm official, and not well maintained, but has significant use.
To me, this still feels hacky, and really there should be some module `npm` relies on that we can also rely on for picking up npm config.
What do you reckon @kellyselden? Is there a better approach you're aware of?
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